Anyone live in The Village, specifically, Talons

fiN01
Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:01:36 +0000

I’m very pleased with the Honors program. During your first semester here you have to take a 1 hour class called “Honors Lyceum” where they basically guide you through all the important stuff related to the program and college as a whole: registering for classes, applying for prestigous scholarships like the Goldwater (they made a big deal about how this year is the first in 30+ years that Auburn has had a Rhodes Scholar), studying abroad, etc. Sometimes they do go a bit overboard with the information, but it’s better than too little I guess. The advisors are very helpful but often very busy, might be a good idea to contact them in advance.

I took 2 honors classes here: Honors Calculus III with Dr. Holmes and Honors Technology and Civilization I with Dr. Beckwith. My Honors classes were definitely more challenging than my non-honors. The honors and non-honors sections use the same textbooks but generally go more in-depth. There are some very bright students in the honors program, one person in my Calc class had a 104 average at the end of the semester! (I ended up with around an 82, and I got an 800 on SAT-Math). So yeah, some high-quality talent here. I’ll be taking 3 more Honors classes and I’ll be done since I got 33 hours of credit from high school (those AP classes are SO worth it).

One thing to keep in mind is that in order to stay in the program (and thus keep your scholarship) you need to maintain a 3.0 GPA freshman year and a 3.2 all other years. Your GPA is evaluated every year, so if you get a 2.8 first semester for example and a 3.2 the next one you’ll be fine. If you get a 2.99 or anything under exactly a 3.0 you’re out, with no chance to ever get back in the program, unless you’re in the co-op program or military. Pretty harsh.