Honors Colleges

EarthyEngineer
Fri, 22 Nov 2013 07:31:09 +0000

ucbalumnus, I appreciate your concern, though I’d really much rather keep the two threads I’ve started separate. I know money might not be the easiest thing in the world for me to deal with, but that doesn’t mean I’m willing to settle for a school I’d never even considered before. So if we could please keep money out of this thread, and focus on CU-Boulder and UVM’s Honors Colleges and Residential Academic Programs, I’d really appreciate it.

Celesteroberts: I took Honors Algebra 1 and Honors Geometry in middle school. Though algebra 1 did not show up on my transcript, Geometry did. So I got an early start there. Conserve gave me a bump after a lot of coordination between it and my regular school’s counselors on how the credits would transfer. As you seem to have picked up on, my school does GPA rather uniquely. I was able to take more classes at Conserve than I would have taken during that semester at home.
Most courses have an honors option. I suppose I may be able to bring in outside sources, though I haven’t needed to yet (unless you count Conserve). Yes, with our system (even though it is on a 4 point scale), you theoretically could wind up with over a 5.0 (weighted)GPA.