Kansas Honors College

Xtrasparklesplz
Sun, 14 Aug 2011 13:02:46 +0000

I love campus. So beautiful, and great exercise to walk through. There is a healthy amount of Greek life on campus, I agree.

Right now, a lot of Honors students live in Templin, which has renovated 4-person suites and 2-person suites. There’s a specific honors floor in Templin and in Ellsworth, but I don’t know much about the one in Ellsworth. Templin is known for it’s studious attitude, compared to the “community service” Lewis, “artsy” Hashinger, “preppy/rich” Ellsworth, “partying” Oliver, and “ghetto” McCollum. There are honors students in each of the dorms., though. Templin’s pretty quiet, even on weekends, never have fire alarms pulled as pranks, the kids are all pretty nice.

Other options for dorm life include the scholarship halls, which is a healthy mix of Greek life (social events) and residence hall living. There’s weekly chores assigned to students to work around their class schedules and much lower food/housing costs because of those chores (I think I’m saving >$2000 this year by switching to a schol hall) There’s quite a few honors students living in the scholarship halls, but most people move off-campus by their junior and senior years, since housing in Lawrence is pretty cheap.

Football games are alright, but everyone knows that basketball games are the BEST. I didn’t have tickets to any basketball games last year since I didn’t buy the $150 pass that gets you entry to all the home football games you want. The $150 pass doesn’t guarantee you tickets to basketball games unless you camp in Allen Fieldhouse with your friends. It’s a weird process, but the serious KU basketball fan students can tell you how it’s done.

BTW, I know KU’s changing the way scholarships work next year. Might want to try looking in the Lawrence Journal-World, since they have a breakdown of it in a recent article (maybe 2 weeks old). Higher GPA requirements to renew your scholarship, but more students will be receiving scholarships under the new plan. And you’ll also know exactly how much money you’ll be getting from KU, instead of hoping the KU financial aid office bites on your application.

Anywhere on Mass Street is generally good, and I hear that 23rd Street Brewery is an awesome place to go too. Mass Street is downtown Lawrence, lots of shops, bars, and restaurants to visit.

Requirements for the Honors program are kind of fuzzy, even to students in the Honors program. I know the ACT score should be >30 and a good high school GPA, but I don’t know whether they look at weighted or unweighted. There’s an essay in the application for honors program applicants, and I think you can win $500 from the Honors program for writing one of the top 4 essays of the incoming freshman class. So glad to help prospective students to KU :)