<p>My daughter was accepted to the UW Honors program. I hear that the classes are smaller, they get a special dorm, there are some special courses, and it's more prestigious. Anyone have any experience with the Honors program at UW?</p>
<p>I need to choose between UW Honors program with in-state tuition (<$9K) vs Haverford ($39K!) with no financial aid. Haverford may be a better school, but I doubt that it's sufficiently better than UW Honors.</p>
<p>ummm go UW. I have never even heard if Haverford</p>
<p>shouldnt it be your daugthers decision? and they dont really get a special dorm, they’re just clustered elsewhere.
and like what schindlr88 said, i’ve never heard of haverford either.
so uw?</p>
<p>Unlike the unlettered previous posters, I have heard of Haverford, and it’s an excellent school that would provide an immeasurably better undergraduate education than UW. I’m currently facing a similar dilemma: I have narrowed my colleges to UW (admitted as a junior through Running Start) and Williams, and although the latter is a much better school (w/regard to undergraduate education), UW would be much cheaper, most likely easier, and I would conceivably be able to graduate within two years. </p>
<p>If I were your child, I would bite the financial bullet and choose Haverford.</p>
<p>First of all why would you want to spend the extra $30,000 to go to a a school where you would get the same education as UW? Second it would be much better to go to a school in a big city with so many more available opportunites. UW has actual sports teams, unlike the other two schools mentioned and it would be way more fun. Why would you even want to graduate within two years? Go to UW, the school has much more to offer!</p>
<p>Schindlr88, you’re missing the point. The educations provided by the UW and Haverford are NOT equivalent, nor are the educations provided by the UW and Williams. You contend that the “other two schools” don’t have sports teams, when in actuality Williams dominates the NESCAC and is one of the most athletic colleges in the nation. And your contention that a large city, by virtue of being large, provides more opportunities is false. Does the UW have an exclusive study abroad program with the University of Oxford, the oldes university in the English-speaking world? No. Does the UW fund and coordinate summer student internships as Williams does? No. Does the UW have tutorial programs in which no more than two students study with a single professor? No.</p>
<p>I’d choose Haverford, especially if your daughter wants to go there.</p>
<p>That is really funny: “NESCAC” ? is that a joke? What is that like division 3? There is quite a difference between that and the pac 10! You give me all of these crazy examples that those two schools have and I could do the same for UW. The point is Haverford would not provide “an immeasurably better education”. College is what you make of it, and UW offers just as many opportunites as Haverford would.</p>
<p>Why am I writing this? This website is making me so aggravated but I can’t seem to stop looking at it. In my opinion the education provided at a small liberal arts college is immeasurably better than the education from a big State University, that is why it costs so much more. I went to Reed college as an undergraduate and I learned how to think. I went to the UW for graduate school and the undergraduate experience there is not what I got. I hope the earlier poster finds a way to go to Williams. I wanted to go there 20 years ago and wasn’t accepted. My daughter wanted to go there this year but also wasn’t accepted. What a wonderful oopportunity. If the original poster can afford Haverford I hope they do it, it is an excellent school. We live close to the UW and this year my daughter will be attending Whitman.</p>
<p>Out of state the two would cost nearly the same.</p>
<p>i think it should be your daughters decision…</p>
<p>Go to Haverford. Like Pea says…if it costs more, it MUST be better.<br>
Gosh, that’s simple. Just find the most expensive college and you’re all set, right?</p>
<p>“The education provided at a small liberal arts college is immeasurably better than the education from a big state university, that is why it costs so much more.” ?? Are you serious? Is that logic as taught by Reed?? Then remind me not to send my kids to Reed…</p>
<p>Additionally, Pea, if you went to the UW for grad school, we are all very happy for you that you did not get an undergrad experience there… What did THAT mean??</p>
<p>Sorry–normally I try to support this forum. But, IMHO, that post was simply painful. People who judge value by expense make me crazy…</p>
<p>Both are great schools–totally different environments. Depending on your fit, you could have a wonderful (or less than) experience at either. And who says one is better than the other?? US News? Gimme a break…<br>
The way your daughter comes across at her first job interview will probably play a much bigger role in landing the job than the “prestige” difference between these two schools.</p>
<p>I think Pea’s main point has to do with the student/faculty ratio. Few will argue that a higher ratio is better, and a lower ratio costs more; that part is simple. The issue is whether goobie’s D fits better at one school or the other. UW Honors would be much more like Haverford than UW regular. Haverford is in the top ten of the country in preparation for advanced degrees in history, political science, anthropology and astronomy; UW Honors is not split out from UW in the IPEDS data, so there’s no way to know how they compare. I wouldn’t want the burden of having made the wrong decision for my D, but if Haverford is simply unaffordable, that’s a different story.</p>
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I agree. The daughter wants to go to Haverford btw (it was in a separate thread).</p>
<p>The OP has a good question. UW honors is not like UW non-honors. It’s like a smaller school within the large school and would be a comparable experience to a small LAC.</p>
<p>Sure – OP’s daughter should have a big part in the decision, but expecting parents to just fork over an extra $30k a year without a really compelling reason, especially with the current economic uncertainty, is just selfish.</p>