Is applying to an honor's college worth it?

[milki]

<p>I second ClassicRockerDad’s comment. According to my school, “[students who] get into College Park’s Honors have 4.3+ WGPAs, have taken AP/IB Classes and have a median SAT score of 1410”. The statement can be verified by UMD too!</p>

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The University Honors Program is a living/learning community for students with exceptional academic talents. Lively students from all majors take small Honors classes with outstanding faculty. Innovation, choice, and diversity reign to foster a supportive atmosphere of friendship and intellectual challenge.

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Students invited into Honors for fall 2006 had an average weighted GPA of 4.29; the average SAT score was 1410 (math + critical reading).

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University Honors has 2 full time advisors dedicated to helping Honors students with academic advising, planning, scheduling, and support. They are terrific and extremely personable – great to talk to, helpful when making academic decisions, and amazing at troubleshooting any problems that may arise regarding arranging class schedules.

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You will work hard in Honors, but within a small class and with lots of attention from the professor. You will analyze ideas and discuss diverse perspectives with the faculty, not memorize factoids to be thrown back on a test. Busy work is prohibited. Honors Seminars fulfill many of the CORE (general education) courses required for all students at the University of Maryland.

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<p>Is that good?</p>

[leungpy1]

<p>That is good in my opinion.</p>

[ekirth]

<p>Is anyone familiar w/Rutgers’ (NB) honors program? I’ve read the stuff on the website (and it seems very nice), but if anyone has direct experience as a student/etc. in the program and would like to share, that’d be really awesome. (e.g. experiences with honors housing, seminars, etc.)</p>

<p>Thanks. =)</p>

[ClassicRockerDad]

<p>Milki, I didn’t make a comment, I asked a question (forgot the question mark). </p>

<p>“SarahLitke, what’s your source, i.e., which books rank honors programs?”</p>

[milki]

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SarahLitke, what’s your source, i.e., which books rank honors programs. I haven’t found a good source to compare and contrast these, but some mentioned here seem really worthwhile.

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<p>Your question was part of the overall comment!</p>

[rocketman08]

<p>I would also very much further the previous warnings about using a program like the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State as a ‘backup’ or ‘safety’ school. I know for a fact that this program in particular, and likely other too, are often MORE selective than the traditional ‘top tier’ programs. They only have 300 openings a year and the published stats show them having higher average SAT scores higher than all but two of the Ivys (H and Y). There were people from our school that got into Ivys (including Harvard) but turned down by Schreyer so it’s certainly not a ‘safety.’ </p>

<p>At the ultra-competitive top end everyone has great grades, SAT, activites ect. so if often just comes down to the opinons of a few people on how you’ll ‘fit’ into the program or school… there are no shoe-ins.</p>

[SarahLitke]

<p>man i really don’t the books name. the book is strickty a rank for honors pograms. but if you dont believe me about the honorns program here at UMD check this article out. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11195-2005Mar29.html[/url]”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11195-2005Mar29.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

[ellicottvic]

<p>I agree with rocketman08. Schreyer Honors College has the best stats of all the Public Honors colleges of note. It is the only honors program with the possibility of Michigan’s that compares favorably with the ivies. MD is all right but definitely not in the SHC league at least in terms of stats. However, MD is also a decent school.
If one were to get accepted to SHC it would be hard to turn down over all the other programs cited here.</p>