<p>If you were to choose between regular admission at Northeastern or the honors program at U of Colorado, which would you prefer and why? I feel that my student would benefit from the small community feel of an honors program, but I’m not really sure how good Co’s program is. And Northeastern isn’t a huge school so maybe it isn’t too impersonal anyway. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Have you visited either school? </p>
<p>Personally, I prefer bigger schools with honors colleges because you get the best of both worlds…all the facilities and choices that big schools can offer, while having the more intimate experience in an honors college. </p>
<p>Larger schools usually have more housing choices, more dining venues, and a broader range of majors and programs. </p>
<p>I can understand the concern at some of these mega flagships with 35,000 undergrads or more, but UC isn’t that big. I think it has about 23,000 undergrads.</p>
<p>Bigger school also often have more than one prof teaching the same course, so if you don’t like a particular prof, you can more easily avoid him. At smaller schools, you often cannot avoid taking a prof that you don’t like. </p>
<p>Does UC limit class-size for honors? Does it offer unique discussion-based honors classes which provide a more LAC-like education? </p>
<p>Often honors programs will offer honors versions of typical classes, such as Honors Calculus II, but does UC also offer some mind-expanding honors classes that touch on current events, politics, environmental issues, developing community service programs, or perhaps put an interesting spin on a traditional course?</p>
<p>Does being in honors afford any other benefits at UC…such as priority registration, honors housing, etc? Does it have the best profs teaching the honors classes?</p>
<p>This is weird, same decision I’m trying to make.</p>
<p>Mom2, yeah, those are my questions. Thanks for supplying the specifics. In fact we have visited both and like both. Housing is big minus at Colorado (2 years tops if you’re honors, freshman year only for others) and the off-campus scene can be pretty partyful from what I’ve read and there are students who do find this very distracting. However, if anyone out there has inside knowledge of CO’s honors program I’d love to get your views on it.<br>
dpc1192, let me know what you find out, and if you haven’t visited ***** for student opinions of Colorado check it out. They say disgruntled people are more likely to post things online and that may be the case here. Or not.</p>
<p>*They say disgruntled people are more likely to post things online and that may be the case here. Or not. *</p>
<p>Very true…and disgruntled people may have caused their own dissatisfaction. Or, they’ll blow out of proportion some negative thing that happened to them and act like those things are commonplace. And, sometimes the negative posts are “made up” by students who attend rival schools. LOL</p>
<p>*Housing is big minus at Colorado (2 years tops if you’re honors, freshman year only for others) and the off-campus scene can be pretty partyful from what I’ve read and there are students who do find this very distracting. *</p>
<p>I take the whole “party school” with a grain of salt. Many, many schools have a party aspect to them, especially if they are a national university and have Div I sports.</p>
<p>But, that doesn’t mean that those in the more serious majors aren’t focusing on academics. The engineering and the hard science majors are going to be more seriously focused on academics than some in the less demanding majors. That’s not 100%, but a rather good guideline. </p>
<p>Certainly, when it’s time to move off-campus, if you choose a responsible roommate to share an apt, you’ll be fine. 
You can use the two years on campus to find that roommate! :)</p>