Honors Program at UW or WSU??

[asound]

How is the Honors program at the university of washington or washington state university. Would you recommend doing it?? Does it help for pre-med or would you recommend it at all?
What are the pros and cons of even doing the honors program at all?

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[Slack3r]

UW would be more fun.

 

[weezynation]

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[CodeBlu]

UW would be more fun.

Agree.

 

[Praefectus]

Go to the one with the best feel. As long as you do well in all of your pre-reqs, there isn't anything stopping you from going to med school if you choose either.

 

[Temerit]

Honors program at UW is stupid.

That said, you should go to UW. 🙂

 

[asound]

Honors program at UW is stupid.

That said, you should go to UW. 🙂

What do u mean??

 

[airplanes]

You'd have more fun in Seattle than Pullman. Problem solved.

 

[Temerit]

Stupid was probably the wrong word, but I know several people who started it and ended up deciding not to do honors in their second or third years. One of these people graduated from UW with a 4.0 and is currently at Hopkins.

At UW the honors program has a set of classes that you can take with other honors students to fulfill your general education requirements. A lot of the work can be considered intensive, but not rewarding.

If you have no AP/IB credits coming in, maybe you should consider it, but AP credits can cover a lot of your general education requirements which is really nice because it allows you more flexibility when choosing what classes you want to take. If you do honors, then you have to take enough credits at the UW to fulfill these requirements and you have to take them from the honors program. This can be up to ~40-50 credits of your 180 credits in your 4 years, and they may not be classes you particularly like and they will be an extra load on top of your science and math classes that you'll be taking as pre-reqs.

All of this is just what I've heard, so if I'm in any way wrong please anyone correct me.

I do have several friends who are in the honors program, but I had talked to enough people that I decided not to do it after I was admitted.

But as many people have said, Seattle and UW are awesome.

 

[asound]

If you have no AP/IB credits coming in, maybe you should consider it, but AP credits can cover a lot of your general education requirements which is really nice because it allows you more flexibility when choosing what classes you want to take.

Did you take any AP classes, and if you did, did you get credit from them? I am awaiting on some of my results for the AP classes I took this year.

 

[Temerit]

Yeah, I had 55 AP credits (AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Econ, AP Lit, AP Lang, AP Calc, AP USH) that fulfilled most of my general education requirements and also helped boost my credit standing which made registering for classes a great deal easier.

 

[freshbagels]

Having lived in Seattle and experienced UW extensively, I chose WSU. Way, way more fun, much better (and more cohesive) atmosphere, and a very broad range of undergraduate research opportunities are available. UW is obviously a world-class research institution, but there are more than twice as many students and as an undergrad, your contributions in a lab are inherently a bit limited anyways.

Someone wrote up a great post about pre-meds at WSU if you can find it, we had kids getting in to great schools. With the WWAMI, getting in to UW med might even be easier than it is from UW itself: adcoms don't like applicants from their own institution quite as much.

edit: Here's the previous thread. Ignore the inane UW vs WSU prattle. http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=917881