Honors and GPA above 3.5

JHS
Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:41:54 +0000

Not at all. You can read the Honors requirement for each major in the course catalog, which is available online. Honors in Math requires that you take either Honors Analysis or Honors Algebra, but there’s no equivalent requirement for Statistics or Economics.

That shouldn’t end your analysis, however. If you are an entering student, and deciding which calculus course to take, you should really talk to your advisor and to someone in the Math department about the differences among Honors Calculus and the two other basic calculus sequences. Among my kids’ friends, everyone who took Honors Calculus thought it was a ton of work and a terrific course; no one had such warm feelings about 150s or 130s Calculus. I also think, though I may be wrong on this, that if you are an Econ or Statistics major, and you don’t take Honors Calculus, you are going to have to take an extra quarter of Math 199 to meet the prerequisites for upper-level math courses you will need to take. Also, 130s Calculus may not work for Econ or Statistics.