University Honors - How competitive?

RadHealth
Wed, 23 Jul 2014 06:28:31 +0000

I just finished my first year in the Honors program. Loved the environment it provided in the dorms, for the program itself not too fond of it. Early registration is really nice, but if you are in trying to sign up for science classes like Chemistry or Biology they limit the number of people the let in during early registration so that can actually end up hurting you because your window will close while the department rationed the number of available seats.

I am actually an engineering student and have taken several honors courses like Engr 111/112 Honors and Ends 101 honors. The main thing honors classes provides for engineering students is a smaller class size, and yes their overall GPA tends to be higher. Whether that can be attributed to the group of the students in the class or the teacher giving Honors students a little benefit of the doubt and grading easier who knows? (I personally think it is some of both).

One thing I have heard is not to take an Honors Math course your first semester at the University unless you or your child feels VERY confident in their ability. I have a friend that took Calculus I twice in high school AB then BC, and then took regular Calculus I at A&M and still had a hard time.

Let me know if y’all have any other questions about the honors program or Texas A&M in general, would love to share my experience.