Honors Colleges

lullababy
Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:47:13 +0000

Now I’m looking at CU-Boulder, and University of Vermont (among several others). I’m confident I would enjoy myself at these schools, but would I be doing myself a disservice by attending a university of that caliber rather than a higher ranking one?



They’re both good schools, but I would take a look at the individual schools and their area of expertise. If you’re going into business, you wouldn’t want to attend a school that has a crappy business department but an amazing engineering department, kind of thing, you know? I don’t see anything wrong with attending a state U if it’s the financially viable option, especially if you’re 100% sure you’re going to graduate school. There was a thread on CC that was about how doctors sent their kids to state U’s because medical school would be where all their money went!

But moving along, I would say honors… GO. FOR. IT. I regret 100000000000000000000000000% not doing it because registration becomes a war when you’re reaching upper division classes. But in all seriousness, I would check out the individual school and their Honors program. Each school is different. I know for my school, students don’t lose any social aspect, but they do have to take some extremely weird (and some useless) classes like the History of Abraham Lincoln (doesn’t relate to my friend’s engineering major LOL).