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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honors colleges are mostly there to make parents’ ego feel larger [/quote]

Bingo.  Exactly this.  One of my kids started in an honors college and then dropped it after two years.  It simply wasn’t worth the the hype and extra classes that were completely unnecessary and unrelated to the major.  Lots of kids drop it after realizing this.  There’s no special “honors” indication on your degree, either.

Another one of my kids wasn’t in the honors college from the get-go (notably, at the same school for comparison purposes).  Even so, they never had TAs teaching their classes, as the OP claims.  There was virtually no difference between the two experiences.  And both kids graduated summa cum laude, which actually *was* noted on their degree and at graduation.[/quote]

Again, your experience isn’t everyone’s. [b]At my alma mater, it is noted on both the transcript and the diploma.[/b][/quote]

Isn't that exactly what PP's point was? So what? If you had 2.5 GPA, do you think your potential employer will offer you the job over 3.5 non-Honor kid?

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No, PP specifically said it wasn’t noted on your degree, which isn’t the case everywhere.

Also, the same honors college I’m talking about also [b]boots you from the program if your GPA dips below 3.5.[/b] So there is no 2.5 vs 3.5.

If your university’s honors college is a joke, that’s a problem with the university, not honors colleges broadly.[/quote]

I doubt that. Which school? [/quote]

Not sure why you would doubt it.

“To remain in the Hutton Honors College, you are required to:

Complete the gateway course sequence of HHC-H 101 and HHC-H 202 by the end of your fourth semester at Indiana University Bloomington (IUB); 
Maintain a 3.50 cumulative GPA.

At the end of a student’s second semester at IUB, those with a cumulative GPA (CGPA) between 3.20 and 3.49 will be placed on conditional membership (the Honors specific version of "academic watch"); students with less than a 3.20 CGPA will be automatically dismissed from the Hutton Honors College.

At the end of a student’s third semester at IUB, those who have not yet completed HHC-H 101 will be automatically dismissed (regardless of GPA).

At the end of a student’s fourth semester at IUB, those who have not yet completed HHC-H 202 will be automatically dismissed. Additionally, students with less than a 3.50 CGPA will be automatically dismissed.

At the end of a student’s sixth semester at IUB, students with less than a 3.50 CGPA will be automatically dismissed.”
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I also did a quick check of some other schools. Penn State, UGA, Ohio State all require 3.4 (though Ohio State’s is an honors program and not a college, and for some majors it is 3.5), Purdue’s requires a 3.3.[/quote]

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