What are the best "Honors College" communities or cohorts at larger universities?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oxford at Emory is the opposite of an honors college. It’s a junior college that feeds into Emory.

That would be like saying UVA Wise is an honor college.

Kinda close, I guess …

Oxford
13% acceptance rate
3.87 average u/w GPA
ACT: 33 - 35 (25th - 75th)
SAT: 1490 - 1570 (25th - 75th)

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UVA Wise
80% acceptance rate
3.57 average u/w GPA
ACT: 18 - 23 (25th - 75th)
SAT: 980 - 1170 (25th - 75th)

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Show us on the doll where Oxford hurt you … 😭

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Oxford is not an honors program

2. Honors programs at publics accept many students from the bottom half of our private. They are not elite. These students are 1300-1350s kids at 1200s schools. If you want elite students with elite opportunities available to all, go to an elite college: a private T15

You sound like an idiot. Also some of us realize that it typically takes $$$ to be at a private top 15, and so there are many equally capable students at publics

There are 7,500 freshman at UCLA, Berkeley and Michigan every single year who would absolutely embarrass the majority of the incoming Ivy+ class in a battle of wits, to say nothing of what they’d do to the top SLAC students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Oxford is not an honors program

2. Honors programs at publics accept many students from the bottom half of our private. They are not elite. These students are 1300-1350s kids at 1200s schools. If you want elite students with elite opportunities available to all, go to an elite college: a private T15

You sound like an idiot. Also some of us realize that it typically takes $$$ to be at a private top 15, and so there are many equally capable students at publics

There are 7,500 freshman at UCLA, Berkeley and Michigan every single year who would absolutely embarrass the majority of the incoming Ivy+ class in a battle of wits, to say nothing of what they’d do to the top SLAC students.

no. what are you smoking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Oxford is not an honors program

2. Honors programs at publics accept many students from the bottom half of our private. They are not elite. These students are 1300-1350s kids at 1200s schools. If you want elite students with elite opportunities available to all, go to an elite college: a private T15

You sound like an idiot. Also some of us realize that it typically takes $$$ to be at a private top 15, and so there are many equally capable students at publics

There are 7,500 freshman at UCLA, Berkeley and Michigan every single year who would absolutely embarrass the majority of the incoming Ivy+ class in a battle of wits, to say nothing of what they’d do to the top SLAC students.

no. what are you smoking

And they have a better overall experience - at less than 1/2 the cost.

Do you seriously think sentencing your kid to four years in Ithaca, Pomona, New Haven, Williamstown, and too many other miserable locales to mention, surrounded by one-dimensional drones, can actually compete with the experience at one of the Top 3 public institutions?

What are YOU smoking?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you looking for a true small college within a big university environment with lots of benefits and an exclusive residential component then the most well regarded ones are:

Penn State Honors College
ASU Barrett Honors College
South Carolina
Clemson

+1. Worth a serious look at these programs.

DS was accepted to several HC and he’s trying to narrow it down. Leaning to ASU Barrett and Purdue!

Purdue
ASU
Penn State

[Anonymous]

My kid is in an well regarded honors college at a well known school. He got amazing housing options and and originally great early registration options. But its not like a "school within a school", his friends ultimately came from all over. Not that big of a deal in the end. It was sort of a nice crutch but I wish I could explain to people how fast college goes by and how little this ultimately factors in. Your kid will not even like most of the kids at honors college in the end because they dont have shared interests/majors. Its all fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1. Oxford is not an honors program

2. Honors programs at publics accept many students from the bottom half of our private. They are not elite. These students are 1300-1350s kids at 1200s schools. If you want elite students with elite opportunities available to all, go to an elite college: a private T15

You sound like an idiot. Also some of us realize that it typically takes $$$ to be at a private top 15, and so there are many equally capable students at publics

There are 7,500 freshman at UCLA, Berkeley and Michigan every single year who would absolutely embarrass the majority of the incoming Ivy+ class in a battle of wits, to say nothing of what they’d do to the top SLAC students.

UCLA and Berkeley are test blind. There are freshmen at these schools that wouldn't get into UC Irvine in a test required environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid is in an well regarded honors college at a well known school. He got amazing housing options and and originally great early registration options. But its not like a "school within a school", his friends ultimately came from all over. Not that big of a deal in the end. It was sort of a nice crutch but I wish I could explain to people how fast college goes by and how little this ultimately factors in. Your kid will not even like most of the kids at honors college in the end because they dont have shared interests/majors. Its all fine.

College is flying by (for me, the mom) so quickly. My son is in his second year and I’m amazed that he’s almost halfway through already.

[Anonymous]

UFL( honors), the best support network and facilities for freshman.

[Anonymous]

+1