Accepted to LSA Honors

Hattrickty9
Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:03:10 +0000

There are a lot of pro/con threads about this so I advise looking them up. In short, the pros: smaller class sizes when taking honors specific classes (usually these sections will be taught by the professor or one of the better GSIs), honors housing (south quad is VERY nice), certain honors-only events (lunch with honors, etc), honors advising (some say this is better than regular advising, some say no different. In my experience, the biggest difference is they are much more willing to do unusual and sometimes inconvenient things for you – they fast-tracked some credits I needed to get on my transcript in like 15 minutes that usually takes up to a week). There really aren’t any “cons.” Some people dislike great books (me included) and some don’t like that you have to take X amount of honors classes/semester (I forget, somewhere around 2 classes). It is technically a 2 year program but the Director of the program told my orientation group that he “fully expects us all to write an honors thesis come Senior year.” Though you can do this without being in the program, I really can’t see a reason to not do honors.