Is South Carolina Honors truly as amazing at it seems?

Honestly - we didn’t look - mine got into UGA and U of SC and chose College of Charleston’s…but did the SC Honors College for the DC Semester (all the SC publics run through U of SC).

Again, I think you have to look - what are they offering - and does that excite her.

Will Honors kids have better outcomes - to answer your question? I’d say so - because it’s likely kids who are more engaged, academically focused on an overall basis. Will some non Honors kids outperform Honors kids - of course!!

Do they break out job types and salaries by Honors vs. non-Honors. I haven’t seen that.

Might they have Honors stats - on # of kids heading to law, medicine, etc. It sounds like you’ve asked and gotten nothing - but I would expect them to be higher than the general student body - just because they’re better students to begin with and that’s who would go.

I’m sure some of the schools have contacts or opportunities that are “easier” to find research or like mine, you had to be in Honors to go to DC.

Is it necessarily impacting outcomes after? I doubt it.

But that’s not the point (to me) - the point is, will the school enhance their experience.

That’s why they should do it - and that’s why kids shouldn’t say, I’ll only go there if I get Honors - and they don’t even know what Honors entails.

Good luck.

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