Detailed information on Honors needed

Dad_II
Thu, 21 May 2009 08:45:06 +0000

It was a very nice reception and I found most of the answers.

About 20% of enrollment each year are honors. so around 1200 to 1300.
There is not an official 4 year graduation rate for honor students because most of them are engineering students. It is normal for them to take 5 years.
With AP or other tests, one could get a max of 45 course credit hours.
So, if one works hard and take 18 hours per quarter, (18 x3 x3) + 45 = 207 that is more than enough to graduate. The unknown, of course, is about if you could get in all the required classes.

Yes, they are required to take 6 honor class in the first two years. That is just one per quarter. If a student is taking 4 ~ 5 classes per quarter, you will be taking most of your classes with the “regular” students.

The good news is that about 50% of the students are the top 10% of their high school classes per the speaker last night. The average ACT of the top half 3000 student is 30. The overall average is about 27.5 - the highest ever in the school history.

We left the reception very impressed.

PS, the current tuition freeze ends in 2010.

PPS, the study abroad program is typically one or two week trips. I was thinking about students actually live abroad and go to classes for one whole quarter.