Honors Colleges

celesteroberts
Thu, 21 Nov 2013 16:17:56 +0000

anvera, you didn’t want to do the honors thesis so you could graduate with honors? Or your GPA isn’t high enough to graduate with honors even if you do the thesis? There is value to having that tag on your transcript when you are finding jobs.

EE, It’s hard for me to imagine that already beginning of junior year one or 2 students would be so far above the others at a large competitive HS. But we don’t have val/sal at our schools since grades aren’t weighted and no +/- so I guess I just don’t understand the process. The 2 top HSs in our area usually end up with 20 or more kids each with 4.0. All or almost all of them have taken all the most rigorous courses available, be it AP or honors or college courses once the AP runs out, and no study halls, so I don’t know how one would distinguish between them to say one is way above the rest in GPA even if it were changed to some weighted scale. How do you get so much above the other top achievers at your school? Do you get some bump from EC awards? And how do you know your rank? Does the school publish lists of rankings for freshman and sophomore year already so you know where you stand? I’m pretty ignorant about this stuff.