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State schools with great honors programs
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UGA is also an excellent option. U of Utah's Honors College is particularly innovative, with collaborative year-long Praxis Labs; and UT provides not only great merit aid but also a path to establishing residency after a year, which is rare. (Also a rare combination of having both a major city and amazing outdoor recreation at one's fingertips.)
University of Washington's honors program is not well known, but it offers small classes (~35 students) and plenty of study abroad programs. UW, as part of PAC12, have great school spirit -- football, baseball, basketball, every sport is competitive and draws big crowd.
My son will be in the honors program this Fall and taking the "HONORS 205 What We Know and How We Know It" class, the Honors seminar, and the Honors section of Math and Computer Science classes. The program offers Honors housing as well, but it's optional.
She went to a Catholic HS, and has connected with the Newman Center on campus. She did not pledge a sorority, and still has a social life. ;-) She has a nice group of friends; the core group she met freshman year and the circle has expanded.
Large lecture hall classes could not be entirely avoided freshman year. Nevertheless, despite the large class size, D's research paper was noticed by her professor and the professor encouraged her to apply to an UG fellowship program.
You can always make a large school smaller, and for sure, by time you get to your upper level classes in your major, the classes are much smaller and your professors know you.
She can always scan the professor profiles in the majors she is interested in, and see if their research projects interest her.
Good luck!
John’s Hopkins, by far, followed by Michigan.....for a lengthy period of time.
https://www.washington.edu/research/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/orFactsheet_2017.pdf
$1.6 Billion is a lot of dough... with $1 Billion alone in Medical school. Given the most money is in Health / Medical, I wouldn't be surprised that Johns Hopkins gets the top dollars.
Also the farther south, the more Greek the campuses seem to be.
Just correcting a false statement.
The absolute surprise for all of us was the University of Utah. It has many strong majors, the dorms are awesome (built for the SLC Olympics), but the Honors dorm is unparalleled. It was built by the Marriott family. School spirt is crazy. The Mighty Utah Student Section is rabid for all sports, including women's gymnastics believe it or not. Look up the MUSS. They were very generous with our son offering one year free and three instate. The elephant in the room is fear of the LDS influence. I grew up Catholic in SLC and that concern is overblown, especially now. SLC is less than 50% LDS, has a Democrat mayor, and lots of great restaurants and bars (although the latter sounds like it's a low priority). SLC is adjacent to the Wasatch and Uinta mountain ranges, two of the prettiest in the country. Lots of outdoor companies like Solomon, Black Diamond and K2 have moved to the region. All in all LOTS to like.
He ended up at Cal poly BTW. Good luck!