UCLA honors & spanish placement exam

Colleges & Universities University of California - Los Angeles
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<p>From what I’m getting after looking through the honors program’s webpage, honor students get exclusive counseling, extra library privileges, more opportunities for honors scholarship and awards, and graduate with honors. But I don’t see anywhere what the explicit requirements are to stay in this program. What do I need to do, along with what courses do I need to take, to graduate with honors? Is it worth it if I’m interested in med school and busting my rear as a biochem major? My friends want me to take chem 20AH with them, but I don’t know what the difference is between 20A and 20AH other than the honors designation.</p>

<p>Also, anybody have any info for me about the spanish placement exam? I did four years of high school spanish, how well would I do on the test? How should I study for it, meaning how is the test structured?</p>

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<p>omg, im doing honors too! and love tea =] LOL for that you get a FREE BUMP</p>

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<p>Haha tea lovers UNITE!</p>

<p>Are you already in the honors program? I don’t want to commit to something without knowing what I have to do.</p>

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<p>uhm yes but i am a rising freshman, thus no help-sorry.
heres this FAQ
[UCLA</a> Honors Programs Tools](<a href=“http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/honors/faq.html]UCLA”>http://www.ugeducation.ucla.edu/honors/faq.html)
hope it’s helpful =]</p>

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<p>i love tea as well! esp. white tea</p>

<p>have you guys been to teavana? i buy fresh loose-leaf tea there. my favorites are queen of babylon and imperial acai blueberry :)</p>

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<p>never been there, but that sounds awesome! i love raspberry tea, and english breakfast tea is delicious. green tea is super good.</p>

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<p><em>facepalm</em> Let’s just make a UCLA tea loving group and congregate there to brew tea and stuff.</p>

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<p>fine whatever-starting a tea thread</p>

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<p>thanks for making the tea topic :)</p>

<p>Anywho, back on topic bump. I’ve been browsing pre-med topics (should’ve mentioned that) and the vibe I’m getting is to take the easiest classes to boost your GPA. If that’s the case, is the honors designation a bonus at all to med school apps? I’m getting the feeling the honors program is more of a burden for pre-meds.</p>

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<p>1) honors probably wont raise/lower your GPA
2) honors is very little work
3) honors wont help for med school.</p>

<p>just decide and dont look back. its not really a big deal.</p>

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<p>You can drop it at any time</p>

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<p>And from what I can tell, you can add it at any time as long as you meet the requirements before graduation.</p>

<p>It would suck to drop out if you’ve done coursework that applies JUST FOR the honors program.</p>