<p>Woot…got my acceptance letter from LSA honors today :).</p>
<p>If you are going to take classes that revolve around discussion with peers and essays and what-not (social sciences, humanities) and were considering schools with wholly “elite” student bodies (you know whether you are or not), then I cannot stress enough, DO THE HONORS PROGRAM. </p>
<p>Honors classes are with honors students who, as a whole, are markedly stronger and more intellectually engaged than the rest of the student body. You’ll be hard pressed to take anything away from non-honors discussion based classes because… the people just won’t be that deep or interested. There are plenty of people like that in the honors program, just a lot less. </p>
<p>^^And outside of science/math courses (and Great Books), you shouldn’t have any GSIs in the honors program if you pick your courses correctly. Accordingly, always opt to take the honors version of an intro level course; You’ll be placed in a small seminar with personal attention from a professor. </p>
<p>Believe me, if you don’t do the honors program, you, like many of the brighter students that come here and neglect to, will become very jaded with the education you receive. </p>
<p>-I know I haven’t been very active on these boards lately, but feel free to pm me with any questions or anything about the honors Michigan experience :)</p>
<p>Hi everyone :]
This thread has been very helpful but I had a few other questions. I am trying to weigh the differences between the Honors College and the Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) program. </p>
<p>For those of you know are familiar with both, can you tell me any pros and cons between those programs specifically?</p>
<p>MoJo vs. South Quad (location and people-wise), the freshman experience, difficulty (is honors college truly more challenging?), and what are the student body’s general impressions of both? </p>
<p>Thank you all!</p>
<p>how does the honors program help with premed? does it help at all?
is it a disadvantage? should i consider it if i want to go to med school? does it look better on a med school app if you have done honors?</p>
<p>If you’re premed, I definitely recommend honors. You’ll meet other students who are actually talented and motivated. Don’t do honors for the name. Do it for the experience.</p>
<p>as a current honors student at umich i can testify to the fact that there are many benefits with honors:</p>
<p>1) better classes (take psych and law seminar w pachella ur first year. You can thank me for this later). Also honors students have access to small classes taught by professors i.e. calc 3 regular is is huge; calc 3 honors is 20-30 students, 1 prof, and easier tests (plus u will learn mas) or taking classes in the rc (western revolutionaries-- great class that i was able to take in the Residential college as an honors course)
2) if you want to do a thesis, as I do, honors gears you to do this
3) better housing (I am in couzens and I would much rather live here than S quad. Food at mojo (brand new cafeteria) is better, location is great (especially if you need to take the buses to get to North campus as I do)).
4) prestige</p>
<p>as far as getting in, my ACT score was relatively low- 31; however I got in over friends from hs w 33 and 34 act scores who got into the likes of duke, notredame, and pre admits to ross. Writing a spectacular essay was definitely what got me in (along with hardest classes, great gpa, and sent in good art work-- there is no supp but going ahead and doing this stands out. (im dual enrolled in art school)</p>
<p>so i’m a student aiming to do premed.
does honors bring down your gpa? because for med school, gpa is probably one of the most important factors.</p>
<p>i’ve heard mixed things, like “why take honors if you’re going to be doing science classes? all the extra math/english courses in honors will only make your workload heavier than necessary” etcetc</p>
<p>truthfully, i’d rather not do much extensive math in college, maybe a calc class or two, so i’m not sure. and essays… even the essays i write now kill me, so i’m not sure if i’d be able to survive.</p>
<p>what do you guys think? is the honors program really beneficial or just burdensome in the end?</p>
<p>Bump. Sorry to bring back an old thread, but I’m debating honors too (intending to do premed).
This might be a stupid question, but do you get assigned so much work that it’ll kill your social life?
Any truth to sweetchaos’s question about the extra science and math?</p>
<p>Whoops, I meant extra english and math, not science and math.
Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>keyman - </p>
<p>I am a freshman at u of m now and i can definitely say that there is really no downside to honors other than great books (but im not a huge fan of literature anyway). Honors in no way keeps you from being social - I have time to balance my fraternity with honors and am able to keep a 3.3 GPA easily so that i can stay in ross as a pre-admit.
Also, you don’t have to take honors math, but you do have to take an english class both semesters and have at least 2 honors classes total per semester.</p>
<p>hope that helps</p>
<p>thanks a lot goblue62!</p>