UC Riverside Honors program (or other UC's that have this), comments/experiences?

[Kev07]

I was admitted into the UCR honors program, but I'm not really sure if I want to join it though.

There seems to be many benefits to the program (they give you money towards residence halls, i think it was $1500, not much but w/e. and preferential scheduling and other crap like that.

Then today, they send me a summer packet to read some excerpt from a book and write an essay on it to bring to orientation on June 20-something, and now I'm realizing this honors program thing may be very much like AP classes in high school, and I don't want to go studying like I did for AP Calculus this year.

I'm just wondering how some of your experiences have been on honors programs (UCR preferred, but any UC with honors program information would be appreciated).

Thanks

 

[seanchai]

I was in the Honors Program at the University of Washington for two years and really enjoyed it. Up here, the best lecturers teach Honors and there's a fair amount of grade inflation because the students are good and engaged and the professors are more interested in telling a good, informative story than being diploma factories. I'm graduating in a few weeks and my number one regret is not staying in the Honors Program.

Don't be me.

 

[Kev07]

hrm, what was different about workload and lifestyle, social life from honors program and regular university?