Hey, all!
So, currently I’m a community college student working on excellent grades and my degree of course. Transferring into a university, I am working on getting the presidential transfer scholarship which automatically grants me admission into the Honors Program. What are some tips or advice you all have on working on this scholarship and doing well once entering the honors program?
Don’t take for granted that you will get the same grades at the university as in CC. As a premed you will have competition from other premeds and class sizes are usually large. You are also taking upper level science classes which are difficult.
So be proactive and make sure you use the academic resources at the university like tutoring center, etc. Join study groups and go to any review sessions offered by professors.
Also every honors program is somewhat different, dome require you to take certain core honors courses, others require a certain number of courses taken as honors, some let you choose if you want to take honors courses.
If you have a choice, I would pick ones that you are interested in and know you can do well in.
One of the “benefits” of the honors program is that you are among a smaller group of people and have the opportunity to get closer to the faculty and to network with more people, so take advantage of any such openings.
@sylvan8798 This is an excellent point. @premedstudent20 My daughter will attend The George Washington University in the fall. Of the 2,575 incoming freshmen, only 125 students were chosen for the University Honors Program and she was blessed with one of those spots. When you are chosen you are considered the cream of the crop. As @mommdc pointed out…to whom much is given, much is expected (my paraphrasing). In order to stay in the Honors Program and maintain her Presidential academic scholarship she must maintain a certain GPA to graduate with Latin Honors. That kind of responsibility will definitely keep you focused.