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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids (3) went through UMD Honors program. I know parents and schools make a big deal because it’s a good way to attract high performing kids but, in reality, it’s not. Intro classes are still large and crowded. It gets better eventually but not because you are in Honors program. [/quote]

UMD Honors has smaller classes.[/quote]

Which classes?  I can't figure out how that works, when there are kids from all majors in honors.  [/quote]

There are about 1,000 freshmen in UMD honors. I attended a LAC with only about 500 freshmen, and they managed to offer classes in a range of majors. [/quote]

This comparison isn’t at all apples to apples.

The LAC as an institution decided to only be 2000 undergrads, staffed accordingly and at the end of the day had fewer majors than a flagship state university.

[b]The flagship isn’t hiring dedicated professors for just the 1000 honors kids (out of 25000 or so students), and those kids could each be studying for 100 different majors.[/b]

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But the perception of exclusive membership is what they are trying to sell. And, as you can tell from this board, they sell it well. [/quote]

I can't tell who you are using "they" to refer to.  The flagship honors program or the LAC.  [/quote]

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