<p>I’ve been accepted to Macaulay at Queens as well and I had the same exact concerns and questions! If you’re planning on attending graduate school though I would recommend doing Macaulay. Even though some classes are with the regular student body, you have to stay top of your class and there are required Macaulay Honors classes for just students in the program to add to what they describe as “rigorous coursework.” Someone else responded about honors programs in regular schools, but Macaulay is not the same as the honors program at Queens College. There are higher expectations and like I mentioned before, you have to take more classes. It’s also expected that you are extremely involved. </p>
<p>Anyway, my main point was that alumni have proven that Macaulay students get into Ivies and some of the most prestigious schools in the country. I know you’ve already stated money isn’t an issue, and maybe this only seems like a valid and important reason to me because I have the grades and extracurriculars for big name schools but not the money, but why pay so much money for four years of undergrad when you’ll get into the same graduate school for free? You can use the money saved from four years of free school to pay to dorm at Queens’s Residence Hall or combine it with the $7500 Macaulay gives you so you can get the most out of study abroad and internship opportunities while in undergrad (because not many other colleges are going to just hand you money to do that), which will make your graduate school application that much better.</p>
<p>Sorry I’m so long-winded but hopefully I made sense, haha.</p>