<p>(future senior)
Everyone seems to talk about it. All I know is that it's a separate major(?) And that you take harder classes. Don't you also just earn another degree in, say, biology anyway? What's the point? Why go through the trouble? It's not like APs in high school where you can buff resume AND (possibly) receive college credit (that I can understand). I even hear that APs aren't accepted?</p>
<p>I don't see why anyone would give themselves a harder time. is having plan ii on a resume good? Do national employers know about this? Is this how you get into honors housing?</p>
<p>I don't even know what the program is about. Any info? (website)</p>
<p>I'm sorry if this sounds lame, but I'm really confused.</p>
<p>Some people are so interested in or awed by a subject that the experience of learning about it is rewarding in its own right. Members of Plan II subject themselves to the heavier workload not as a means to some practical end (e.g. buffing up a resume or impressing a possible employer, as you listed), but as an end in and of itself. The extra “trouble”, in this light, is not a trouble at all, but the purpose. They welcome the “work” for no other reason than the fact that they like it. This is the quintessential spirit of scholarship, the original reason people went to college.</p>