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This is my first post after lurking for years.I just have to plug the Honors College at ASU. DD is about to graduate from there.She has attended on a National Merit Finalist Scholarship.It's worth (in her case) full tuition -out of state -plus 3,500 a year. Current enrollee's are getting 5,500 a year. The extra has been enough to pay for housing both on campus 2 years and off 2 years.She's had to maintain a 3.5 (out of state, in state its a 3.25) and do 20 hours a semester of community service (easy to do they have numerous opportunities handed to them through the honors college and many other sources.She's just finished her honor's thesis working with a music grad school faculty member who never worked with an undergrad before and did a summer honor's only study abroad in between freshman and sophomore year-6 weeks, 6 credits with honor's faculty teaching them in various cities.She's been able to add a women's studies minor which wouldn't have been possible at a conservatory.
The honors college is self contained as far as dorms,classrooms and faculty offices are concerned.
DD was recruited and it was a happy match.She was looking for music performance, decided free standing conservatories weren't for her (she felt too confined).She never considered ASU but it showed up on a top 25 music school list,she found a studio teacher she loved plus the National Merit plus Honor's College.
Just an aside note:she's been accepted and will attend a PHD program (fully funded) in Musicology next fall at one of those upper tier private U's everyone on here is always talking about. ANd she warns that of all the people she knows who came in with a National Merit, she's the ONLY one who has kept it all 4 years w/o probation at some point.Even at ASU its hard to keep a 3.5!!