Tulane Honors or UCLA? Please give advice!

shermani
Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:58:16 +0000

The honors program here is a complete ruse. The perks of being in the honors program are useless: you have to maintain a 3.6 (not difficult), you are required to take 4 honors courses (which are somehow populated with the same idiots you’ll meet outside of the program), and you’ll receive a plethora of invitations to attend empty seminars on the supposed links between Chemistry and Jewish Art, and some other bull. Oh, and there is no preference for class registration, which you would think should be a fundamental advantage for the University’s “top students.”

The merit money is great (believe me, that was my impetus to enrolling), but you will not get a similar college experience to what you will have at UCLA – notably, any traditional campus feel whatsoever. Tulane can be enjoyable, if you have little concern for what the degree is actually worth, but I don’t believe one can have a fantastic academic experience here. Just my two cents.

By the way, I chose Tulane over UCLA, Vandy (admitted post-waitlist), and several other, more prestigious schools. I regret that decision daily.