College Honors Program at UCLA

[Hankysmoo]

Anyone know if it is worth it to enroll in the college honors program at UCLA for the college of letters and science? Is anyone currently enrolled in it and have any opinions on it? The best benefit seems to be that you can register for classes early if you're in honors but is that a good enough reason to join it? thanks

 

[weezergirl]

Well the thing with the classes is that your first pass is earlier than everybody else's but at that time you usually get into whatever class you want anyways since none of the classes are going to be full for the first pass. It's the second pass that matters, unfortunately yours will be the same as everybody else's so it doesn't really make a difference. Know what I mean? Well anyways, I'd go ahead and do it. it's not that much extra work.

 

[FrontlineWarrior]

just apply for it. you don't have to do any work and they won't kick you out until a full year later! hahahha
free priority passes for a full year, no work.

 

[dethman]

back when i was there, no it wasnt really worth it, kind of a pain in the a$$ actually, too much work for a few classes for little to no recognition. that's why practically EVERYBODY drops out of the program. i already had priority enrollment anyway from something else and i just got departmental honors in my major which was easier.

 

[Deleted member 4644]

Im in it, and I *might* even stay in it. haha... Its kind of cool, but you get almost nothing out of it. Worth the time to write the essay though.

 

[HamSupLo]

i was in the honors program for one year until i slacked off and didn't sign up for honors classes. At that time, the choice of honors classes sucked. I guess if you want to go ballz out and graduate with a 3.8 and go to a top notch grad school, honors would be for you.

 

[Hooligan]

I was in it for a couple of quarters and then ate sh!t one quarter and got kicked out. It was not worth it but hey, try it out, it's nothing that special.

 

[edc03]

i'm not in it... and i was never rejected or anything... but i don't think it's very useful. i mean if you graduate with a 4.0 from ucla... that's pretty impressive as it is you know. but i guess if you have a 4.0, you're a honor student huh...

you gotta take extra honors courses i believe to get credit.

 

[Karaethon1]

If I seem kinda ignorant, it's cause I'm an engineering major and honors isn't offered to engineering (basically everyone in engineering is honors goes the saying)

What you have to do:
- Take some number of credits from the honors course every year (some professors teaching regular courses allow you to do a little extra to receive the credit)
- Maintain a decent GPA. Dunno what it is but I thinl it's like 3.0

What you get:
- You get to select 10 units on priority pass (what they don't tell you is that only a certain percentage is open for priority anyway)
- When you graduate, if you're still in honors, they make a mention of it

What you "supposedly" get:
- You have a higher chance of living in De Neve/Sunset/getting a double in a Res Hall. (in some cases this is true, but I've noticed that it isn't true in all cases)


Those are sorta the facts. Maybe someone can clarify more details.

Oh yeah... if you want a double in De Neve or Sunset for next year, as far as I'm aware, there currently are none. So unless someone doesn't pay or something, if you want any chance of a double at all, go for a Res Hall