<p>Anybody know anything insightful outside of what the school's site provides? How helpful is the honors program to an engineering student (specifically civil engineering)? How challenging? What kind of grad school or employment benefits? Any personal experiences?</p>
<p>i'm currently at VT (please do not call it VTech...its VT, or Tech if you're a Virginian) so I know quite a bit about VT's engineering, so feel free to PM me with any specific questions</p>
<p>as for the honors program, it means smaller classes, more one on one with professors, ect...however, your basic freshman classes will not have a lot of honors options, except for Calc (both I and II)/Linear Algebra/English/some electives...
as for challenging: VT freshman year is ridiculous...VT prides itself on its weeder classes (by the end of freshman year, 2/3 will remain...of those 2/3 left, another 1/3 will leave by senior year)...not sure about the other years, but apperently the material gets somewhat harder, but your skills/study habits get better and classes get much smaller (20 or less)
grad school/emplyment: if you finish with a certain number of honors classes, you graduate "with honors" which obviously looks great</p>
<p>again, PM me with any questions if you want</p>