Pharm students: Should/Should you not do honors?

Emily2007
Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:32:51 +0000

You aren’t going to have less “social integration”. Freshman year people stick with dorm friends, but by the end of sophomore year you’ll be all mixed in. I’m non-honors, living with an honor student and an ex-honors student, and my friends are from different majors and both honors/non-honors.

My roommate, who dropped out of honors, just didn’t feel like taking the extra courses and didn’t think it would really benefit her in getting into medical school (she just got accepted a month ago, so she was probably right).

There’s really no reason not to do honors if you’re accepted. After freshman year, your priority will be to live with friends, not to live in honors housing. Your friends will be both honors and non-honors, and no one will care. Also, if you did well enough in high school to be accepted into honors, you really should have no problem maintaining a decent GPA.

Also, honors students take a few honors-only classes during their undergrad, the rest are just regular classes. As a pharm student you will be in core sciences with honors and non-honors students. No one is safe from the wrath of Potts-Santone and her general bio course.