Pharm students: Should/Should you not do honors?

neuchimie
Fri, 25 Dec 2009 08:48:16 +0000

Does it matter? If you’re in your third year and you realize that you really just can’t fit in the last two honors courses, oh well. Then don’t graduate with honors. If you hit really really hard classes and can’t keep up the gpa, oh well. But why should you go INTO college already deciding not to? You lose all of the benefits of being in the program, all of the support, and all of the prestige. Graduating with honors looks good, but it also looks great on your resume for co-op when you’re trying to get your first job and all they have to look at is your gpa and past courses. If you try to apply to a job on campus or send in an application for a program or whatnot (like being a school tour guide, for example) it looks awesome to say you’re in the honors program. Honors kids can say they know about non-honors, but non-honors have a hard time proving they know the ins and outs of the honors program, even if they have a friend in it. Honors program gets you free food, free housing events, and free trips places. If you want to TA for a class, honors program lets you do that without being a grad student. Honors program will help you start research if you’re into that stuff. And knock on wood, if you decide three years in that you were wrong and you don’t want to do pharmacy and instead you want to transfer to some other school, honors looks even better.