Honors programs at big universities

dodgersmom
Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:46:28 +0000

the value of the honors college cohort is not enough to counteract the effect of the hundreds upon hundreds of nice but average students who populate the rest of the university–kids who would never have even been tracked in the same high school classes as the students in the honors college . . . The state university’s clubs were of the same quality as our high school’s, which meant you had all the kids who never showed up or carried their fair share of the work load.

Welcome to the real world! Very few working adults enjoy the luxury of being surrounded only by the best and the brightest, so I guess the question is what the student wants from his or her college experience . . . four years of privilege (and there’s nothing wrong with that - after all, you earned your place in that elite college!) or four years of training for life outside the bubble.