Guide/07 Building Your College Strategy
Honors Colleges at Public Universities
What public-university honors colleges offer, how admission works (separate applications vs. automatic consideration), real examples from Barrett, Schreyer, Plan II, Macaulay, and Maryland, and how to decide if one beats a more selective private school.
Many large public universities have honors colleges: small classes, priority registration, special housing, and sometimes big scholarships, inside a big university that often costs far less than a private college.
This chapter explains how they work, how admission differs from school to school, real examples, and how to compare an honors college with a more selective private option...
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What’s in this chapter
- 1What honors colleges usually offer
- 2How admission works
- 3Real examples
- 4Writing honors college essays
- 5Honors college or a more selective private school?