I’m a CS major likely attending UCI this fall. I was accepted into the UC Irvine CHC, and I was wondering what this entailed. I do see all of the benefits like priority enrollment and honors housing, and I’m interested in the extra research element but the extra required classes and honors thesis etc sound like a bunch of extra work. I’m not sure if I should accept it.
My questions are mostly:
What are these extra classes I must take? I’m not very familiar with scheduling my college courses for credits yet, and I definitely have a lot of AP credits from high school, so will these courses just be bad? For a CS major, would these just be getting some credits out of the way or is it already covered by stuff like AP Lang/Lit?
Can I just drop honors sometime into junior year or something, is there a benefit to that?
What does the extra research opportunities/other perks actually mean?
Can someone write a long guide of everything I should know when making my decision of whether to join CHC or not? Thank you!