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College Checklists

Honors Programs and Colleges

 

Are You Ready for Honors? The essence of honors is:

  • Personal attention

  • Top faculty members

  • Enlightening seminars

  • Illuminating study-travel experiences

  • Research options

  • Career-building internships

The above are all designed to enhance a classic education and prepare you for life achievements. And here's an eye-opening bonus: honors programs and colleges may reward your past academic performance by giving you scholarships that will help you pay for your higher education!

Admission to honors programs and honors colleges is generally

based on a combination of several factors:

  • High school or previous colleges grades

  • SAT or ACT scoes

  • Personal essay

  • Extracurricular achievements


To stay in honors, you must:

  • Maintain a certain GPA

  • Show progress toward the completion of the specific honors program or college requirements

 

Once in an honors program, you will:

  • Learn how to formulate and structure ideas so that you can apply critical judgment to sets of facts and opinions

  • Practice discussion and arguments

  • Give seminar papers

  • Write a thesis

  • Build your self-confidence


This article taken from Peterson's/Next Step Magazine's Checklist edition 2003.
© 2005 Thomson Peterson's, a part of The Thomson Corporation

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How NOT to Choose a College....

  1. Your boyfriend or girlfriend is going there

  2. Your friends are going there

  3. The tuition is low

  4. Because of its party-hearty reputation

  5. The college brochure or university guidebooks showed all these fun student sitting under trees.

  6. A computer college matching program said this was your best choice. (Although these can be very helpful in narrowing your choices, you need to make the final decision.)

  7. You visited just that campus and didn’t want to look elsewhere.

  8. It’s located in your city or state and you didn’t consider other locations, even though you could have.

  9. It’s the one college you and your parents have heard of.

  10. You know you’ll be accepted there.

  11. Because of its prestige.

  12. It has the academic program you’re looking for, so the campus atmosphere doesn’t really matter.

    © 2005 Thomson Petersons, a part of The Thomson Corporation

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