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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter is a senior and has packages at multiple OOS flagships.  Most have offered her honors programs too.  It looks tempting, but at the same time engineering is hard enough.  To keep up with the GPA, do you think we are better off avoiding the honors programs?
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I think you should talk to them directly.  If the honors classes are smaller and more interesting (and appropriate for your kid) maybe she'll do better in them.  The median grade may be different, too.

I wish my kid was good enough for honors where he is because it would have gotten him out of the gynormous physics class.[/quote]

Most honors school classes are for english and humanities.  If you are in engineering, you must take the huge physics class unless you get a 5 on the AP physics C test.  Even then many retake it to make sure the basics are all covered.   Of course if you go to a smaller school, you may get a smaller class, but even Case Western has 150-200 kids in their Physics classes and I think they only have 4500 undergrads.  [/quote]

You know little about engineering schools...

There often is a small honors physics, invitation only. My kid didn't get an invite (rightly so). My friend's kid did (rightly so).[/quote]

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