<p>My son has been accepted into the Engineering school and into University Honors. He just received an email about Virtus. It sound like a good program because he would live with other engineers and they could work together. Virtus is in Easton and University Honors is in Hagerstown. It sounds like he could still take the Honors seminars and classes, but he would not live with the other Honors students if he decided to do the Virtus program. Does anyone have experience with Virtus? Is it worth giving up living with the other honor students?</p>
<p>I have the same problem, but deciding between Flexus (girls equivalent of Virtus) and Scholars… I’d like so suggestions to please!</p>
<p>You will meet plenty of engineers in your classes and when you join the engineering clubs on campus. My opinion would be to stretch out your horizons and meet others from different disciplines. You will learn a lot from other perspectives and through those kids you will be expose to new things. It would be nice if the kids in your honors dorm are musicians, philosophers, actors, etc… and can introduce you to a different swatch of students that you might never have any interactions with.</p>
<p>My son is having the same problem University Honors or Virtus, I think Univ Honors as he will be able to meet other kids in a different major.</p>
<p>I have the same problem with you except with Flexus and scholars. Does Virtus require you to live in their specified dorm? If not, then you could do both and live with the honors dorm to get the exposure as @krug mentioned. if so, I personally would choose honors because you will meet engineers in your classes already. Also, I think there will also be a good number of engineers that were also invited to honors. In my case, I plan on doing both programs, but live with the scholars community.</p>
<p>FYI, Virtus (the male version) DOES have a living requirement.</p>
<p>Thanks for the input. I think he is going to live with University Honors. It would be nice for him to meet some people with different majors, and I think that you are right that it will be easy to meet other engineers in his classes. He also will know some people from his high school that are majoring in engineering at UMD.</p>