<p>@mominaz and ptpgjlc:<br>
Thanks, your posts are reassuring. My son has been admitted to the Barrett Honors college as an incoming freshman in fall 2013. He has selected Biomedical Engineering as his major. Just like your son, he wants to pursue higher education (grad school or medical school) after undergrad. ASU is offering him great scholarship that we cannot ignore. He is getting decisions back from UCs now and we are in the dilemma. We are planning a visit to ASU/Barrett during the first week in April where he can stay overnight at the dorms, tour the campus, eat the great cafetaria food (that we have heard so much about) and shadow etc. From the good things we have heard thus far, and ofcourse the generous scholarship offering, Barrett is certainly amongst the top contenders for us. Just the fact that he will be amongst the top 10% at ASU/Barrett rather than one amongst the crowd at one of the top UCs is swaying us in that direction. Reading your posts I feel that we won’t regret our decision.</p>