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[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.
[/quote]True. Universities aren’t offering separate honors version of all the 300 and 400 level courses that are restricted to majors, and they probably couldn’t offer a separate honors version of Comparative Lit 451. But those were never the huge lecture courses. The huge lectures are the 100 and 200 level courses that many students take as prerequisites and distribution requirements. Econ 101, Intro to Stats, Calc I, etc. Those are the courses that, at some schools, have separate honors classes or at least separate honors discussion sections. [/quote]

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