<p>When I visited Penn’s campus earlier this year, I sat in Professor Souleles’ Honors Finance 101 class and I thought that it was amazing. I’m coming here as a Wharton freshman in the fall. </p>
<p>What is the requirement for enrollment into honors classes (I know that Finance 101 is a course taken during sophomore year)? </p>
<p>Are there honors courses in the College of Arts and Sciences?</p>
<p>Do you have to be a Joseph Wharton Scholar in order to enroll in these courses? If so, do you have to be interested in the sciences or in research?</p>
<p>There are only a few (read: very few) Honors sections of Wharton courses. Finance 101 and 100, management 101, marketing 101 and stat 430/431 are the few that I know of. </p>
<p>The Finance honors courses have an application, based upon courses taken, GPA, honors or dual degree program status, and interest. The pools self-selecting - it’s not terribly difficult to get into them (Souleles’s 9am section usually has room; Siegel’s section is much smaller and harder to get into). The other honors courses are all open enrollment.</p>
<p>There are some honors courses in the college - these include Ben Franklin Seminars ([CURF</a> - benjamin franklin scholars](<a href=“Penn CURF”>Penn CURF)) which are discussion and writing intensive lib. arts or interdisciplinary courses, and then some depts. offer honors versions of their other courses (Physics, for example, and I know there’s a History honors track)</p>
<p>You don’t have to be in a scholars program to take the courses. However, if you want to take a lot of these courses, or you are interested in research and the science basics of business, consider applying to join the JWS program (or the UScholars or BFS programs), or mention it on your application.</p>