<p>wht is plan 2 and wht are honors programs. are they better than the normal engineering programs. if they are can i still apply for them this year or next year.</p>
<p>For all of the honors programs you must apply before Feb 1st when you apply to the university. I know Business Honors you can transfer into as a sophomore. I am pretty sure you can't transfer into Plan II and I don't know about the others.</p>
<p>Plan II is one of their liberal arts honors programs. I will be attending it in the fall and i went to a reception they had in the Dallas area for admitted students last night. Everyone there was very nice and helpful. Here is the description off of the website:</p>
<p>Established in 1935, Plan II is a challenging interdisciplinary curriculum leading to the Bachelor of Arts degree. Plan II differs from most honors programs in that its core curriculum is itself a major. Over a third of the courses required for a Plan II degree are limited to Plan II students. Plan II students also have access to other honors-level courses at the University. The remaining classes are chosen from the extensive list of the University's departmental offerings. Many of these classes will be as challenging as honors courses.</p>
<pre><code>* a year-long freshman course in world literature from the ancients to the present
* three semesters of interdisciplinary tutorials and seminars which develop and refine students' analytic and synthesizing capacities
* a year-long philosophy course for sophomores
* a semester of honors social science
* two semesters of non-US history
* a four-semester honors sequence in modes of reasoning, theoretical math or calculus, life sciences, and physical sciences
* a senior thesis, a major independent research and writing project, which is the culmination of a student's academic program in Plan II
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<p>In addition, students must satisfy University and College requirements with courses in both US government and history, a fine arts/humanities sequence, foreign language proficiency, and additional math or science.The elective hours incorporated into the Plan II curriculum provide flexibility if Plan II students choose to complete the equivalent of a second major in a particular subject area. For instance, a student might take electives in English in preparation for English graduate school. Someone wanting a career in banking might concentrate elective hours in economics, or even the Business Foundations certificate program. Many students complete the premed curriculum or a pre-law concentration in conjunction with their Plan II major and go on to medical school or law school. Often, Plan II students take an additional year and simultaneously earn a second degreein business, engineering, or architecture, for example. Hence, it is possible through the electives to achieve some degree of specialization in tandem with the broad-based Plan II curriculum.</p>
<p>Plan II webpage (very helpful and thorough):
<a href="http://www.utexas.edu/cola/plan2/%5B/url%5D">http://www.utexas.edu/cola/plan2/</a></p>
<p>thanks a lot. i poned them turned out i can apply for their spring semester and tere si alos a transfer option</p>