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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you convince DC that flagship state schools are not all that they seem?  DC is at a small private and is obsessed with finding the “college experience” of football, social life, community etc but has always been in [b]small classes, small social circles, easy access to resources etc.[/b]  [/quote]

This is a description of most public state flagship Honors Colleges.[/quote]

I actually don't understand this point whatsoever.  Honors Colleges only have small classes for the specific classes required by the Honors College...it's not like they offer their own sections for someone who wants to major in Engineering or Finance or the other very popular majors.  Now, perhaps those upper level classes on their own are not huge.

I know just as many kids who dropped out of the Honor College because of the extra bullshit they had to do, as ones that remained in the Honors College.[/quote]

Not at UMD. Small sections for Calc and above so they can move really quickly through the material. Probably true of sciences too.[/quote]

Does anyone have a good resource for this? There are honors programs and honors colleges and it seems like the they really run the gamut, from "basically the same experience but with the option to take a few small seminar classes" to full "school within a school" experiences. Some involve separate living quarters (optional? mandatory?) and some are basically a status upgrade that allows priority course registratrion (value for those with "impacted majors!")

If anyone has a favorite resource for this, please share, thanks![/quote]

I don’t have a resource for this. But you have landed on an important point that is too often lost here, which is that you should research things in depth at each school rather than just going off of generalizations. Too much on this site is, “if you go to school type X then it will be like Y.” But there is a huge range of actual experiences.[/quote]

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