OT: Just got accepted to UCONN!!

[amory]

I mean if it's about the cash, and that's a lot of cash, I'd definitely say go for it. But the honors kids really did have to do a significant amount more work (from what I saw) for what seems like a rather small payoff. I can't see any of the employers I've worked for (pharmaceutical industry) accepting or rejecting anyone based on them having "Honors" on their resume.

Those kids definitely had to work their butt off. I did a Molecular Bio major which was hard enough as it is, and reading the "honors projects" in those classes I was just like jeez, no thank you.

Congrats dude, college at UConn is an amazing and enriching experience. Make the most of it!

 

[Durks07]

Don't take intro to film in von der mehden. You'll rarely get there for friday 8am film lab and when you do you'll fall asleep.

It seems like an easy A but its not.

I fell asleep every single class. It was the most brutal one I took in 4 years.

 

[Milo65]

Congrats...I wasn't in the school of business and definitely was not in the honors program, but all of my friends from college (including me, surprisingly) have been very successful out in the real world. I will stack up UConn to any school in the country and it was the best 4 years of my life. Enjoy

 

[Edge2017]

Congrats man. I've loved my first year here so far and am very glad I decided to come here, the friendships I've made, memories I've had, and of course basketball have made it a great year so far.
Bleed Blue!

 

[ecasadoSBU]

Connecticut is great.... But go to Stony Brook instead. (don't kill me guys) hahaha. I kid I kid. I'm just biased.

Overall, I visited University of Connecticut three times per semester for the past four years and I can only say that I had great memories over there. Beautiful New England style campus (something I did not have at my alma mater SBU) with a strong sense of community/unity in the student body. Also, I've seen a lot of growth the past few years with new classroom buildings, Storrs Center, "Genos Grilled" (lol) and it continues to expand with the State making heavy investments in the near future. Obviously I did not study there, but I definitely think its a great place to continue your education. My girlfriend says that the quality of education is great and she also received a 25k scholarship despite being a resident of New York so it was a no brainier for her. It seems like Connecticut has a lot of money to provide for the best applicants so that's always good.

Congratulations and I hope you make the best decision for you. Enjoy these upcoming four years. There are likely gonna be the best four years of your young life, even if you are broke like I was. LOL

 

[CAHUSKY]

I did a Molecular Bio major

Me too. She was hot, and smart.

 

[Robertelamin]

Don't take intro to film in von der mehden. You'll rarely get there for friday 8am film lab and when you do you'll fall asleep.

It seems like an easy A but its not.

Lowest grade I got at UConn. C- and I was lucky.

 

[ecasadoSBU]

I agree. Spring weekend here now is consisting of cops on every single street corner on campus. Dozens of cops on bicycles and some cops on horses. I ordered food last Spring Weekend and the driver apologized for being late after being stopped at 3 different police checkpoints along 195.

It's sad that a very small handful of people had to ruin it for tens of thousands of current and future students.

I actually think is the best for the University. Spring Weekend at Connecticut was out of control and it was not just a handful of people, it was a significant destructive crowd from my understanding. The University did the best for its reputation, for the value of your degree, and for the quality of life of its current students. Don't get me wrong, I like to party up. But things were out of hands at Storrs... the school has only benefited from that smart move.

 

[Huskyforlife]

Man the 2014 class is stacked Congrats

 

[Excalibur]

Not much of a benefit of the honors program. In fact I wouldn't even participate in it. It's extra work with the benefit you can put it on your resume.

Do the first two years -- smaller classes for some of the core stuff makes it easier. I didn't even bother getting the sophomore certificate -- I just took advantage of the program.

 

[HU5KIES]

I actually think is the best for the University. Spring Weekend at Connecticut was out of control and it was not just a handful of people, it was a significant destructive crowd from my understanding. The University did the best for its reputation, for the value of your degree, and for the quality of life of its current students. Don't get me wrong, I like to party up. But things were out of hands at Storrs... the school has only benefited from that smart move.

Don't get me wrong, I undoubtedly see the need for the University to have stepped in and do something about the dangers of Spring weekend. I just think that they went a bit far, that's all. When it takes over an hour and a half to deliver some Wings Over Storrs is when I get upset

 

[DarthGrumpy]

Congrats!

If you have the grades and the money, study abroad if you are a business major. I did when I was in Storrs in the 1990's when only 10% of the student body went abroad and it was the best decision I made personally and professionally. I am still involved in the business school today and study abroad is a big push right now, then want to move it from 25% participation to close to 50% in the next few years.

Oh, and don't try to join the Century Club your 2nd night in campus. That cost me half of my liver and most of my GPA first semester.

 

[Dove]

Honors or no honors...you still will experience a morning where you wake up next to a funnel and a tranny named Simone.

Oh, and congratulations.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

Congrats dude!

I got out of the school of business in 2009 with a finance degree.

Few things:

1) You're in the school of business as a freshman - that's awesome - you have to maintain a decent gpa to stay into it until your jr year, if you fall out ( hard to do unless you really F up) it's near impossible to get back in.

2) What major are you thinking of doing? I did finance, but it seems like the school really specializes in accounting and has contacts with the big 4 and other companies. Accounting is a technical skill - if you can do accounting, you can do finance, but it's more learning to go the other way around.

3) Have fun bro, take advantage of it all. When you're a working class stiff you'll yearn to go back for a day - you have 4 full years ahead of you. just awesome.

 

[CAHUSKY]

Congrats!

If you have the grades and the money, study abroad if you are a business major. I did when I was in Storrs in the 1990's when only 10% of the student body went abroad and it was the best decision I made personally and professionally. I am still involved in the business school today and study abroad is a big push right now, then want to move it from 25% participation to close to 50% in the next few years.

Oh, and don't try to join the Century Club your 2nd night in campus. That cost me half of my liver and most of my GPA first semester.

Couldn't agree more. I did a year abroad (while in JC and 1 year before I got to UCONN) and it was absolutely life changing. Take advantage of it if you can. Doesn't matter where you go, just go.

 

[NEforceUConn]

Honors or no honors...you still will experience a morning where you wake up next to a funnel and a tranny named Simone.

Oh, and congratulations.

Great job, Definately my sense of humour.

 

[kyle]

Honors program? I barely graduated!


Good:
Susan Nagel (Geology) Easiest geo prof. If you need a lab science this is by far the easiest way to go and she gives out rocks and stuff at the end of class.
Alain Frogley (Music) "Intro to Popular Music" or whatever the heck was literally easier than first grade.
Susan Herrick (EEB)
Eric Shcultz (EEB) Pretty hard but an excellent professor. I've never learned so much and gotten such a crappy grade in the same class before.
Tyson Miller (Chem)

Bad, avoid at all costs:

Mark Urban (EEB) Complete who only accepts his own definitions word for word on exams as if he's the sole authority on ecology. Not only that but he sucks at teaching so you're never clear on what's what and whatever the book says is WRONG. Can't say enough terrible things about him.

Emilio Pagalotus?? (Econ) I doubt he teaches anymore but he was terrible. If you wanted to meet with him OR see your test grade, you would have to make an appointment trough his secretary. Lazy pos is probably retired by now.


The best way to pick gen eds that you don't care about is to look up the teachers on rate my professor and just take whoever is easy and doesn't require much work. No point (imo) writing 20 pages of bs when a class that requires almost zero work fulfills the same requirement.

 

[August_West]

Lol, like any of these yahoos went through the honors program.

Honors program? Ha, yeah, no, unless you got honors credit for bong hits. Took me 7 1/2 years!! but that delay allowed me a couple hundred grateful dead shows and made it so I was still there for nit championship and the dream season. I wouldn't trade it back.

Congrats op.

 

[HU5KIES]

As a second semester Sophomore in the business school, you'll likely take nearly all of the same Gen Ed courses your first two years.

Good:
Oskar Harmon (econ 1201) - The class itself isn't that easy but the way he has it set up makes it very easy to get an A.
Jamie Huff (WGSS 1124) - (Elective) - Women's studies class, very easy course and Ms. Huff is EXTREMELY easy to look at.
Dick Kochanek (Acct 2001) - Financial Accounting is not easy by any means. But Dick is easily the best (and most widely taken) professor to teach it to you.
George Bentley (Geog 1700) - Very nice guy and makes the class interesting. Easy to get an A in here if you show up.

Try to avoid:
Adam Fry (Bio 1102) - You have to take a 4 credit lab course as a UConn requirement. But whatever you do don't take Bio with Fry, he's an @ssh0le. Take Geoscience instead.


Granted, you're not going to be choosing your classes until you go to orientation in the summer so just try to keep this thread in the back of your mind.

ALSO: GO TO AN EARLY ORIENTATION. The sooner you go, the more likely that the classes that you want to take will have seats available. Many freshman have to take the same courses, especially in the business school. Try to sign up for a late spring, or early summer orientation if it fits your schedule. I did, and I was able to not have any Friday classes my first semester and still manage to take 17 credits

 

[Walker11]

Did you get into any significantly better schools? That's honestly an important question, esp. as an out of state student (even w / the money). If you are getting 15k you must have a very solid academic profile.

 

[4UConn]

Best thing about UConn...the absolutely great people (well 80% or so) who choose to go to college there. When I look back, THAT is what made UConn memorable.

 

[kyle]

Kenna Jacobs is a great French teacher and hot as hell too. Those 8-12:30 4x/week summer classes went by surprisingly quickly.

 

[CAHUSKY]

Honors program? Ha, yeah, no, unless you got honors credit for bong hits. Took me 7 1/2 years!! but that delay allowed me a couple hundred grateful dead shows and made it so I was still there for nit championship and the dream season. I wouldn't trade it back.

Congrats op.

Big deal, took me 27 years from start to finish.

 

[UConn_Top_Dog]

I'm from New York and just got accepted into the Business School and Honors program with a scholarship of $15,000 a year totaling $60,000 over 4 years! So I was wondering what the benefits of the Honors program are at UCONN and if you guys could give me some insight into what is great about UCONN?

I graduated from the business school in 2012 from the Real Estate program. The class sizes are surprisingly small for such a huge university, so you get quite a bit of one on one interaction with professors. Its all about the effort you put in. When the professors see that they are more willing to help. Also, get involved as much as possible in clubs and get into an internship. I can;t stress that enough. No internship and you will have a very hard time finding a job. I didn't do an internship and it took me over a year to find something in my field. I got lucky and found a real estate broker willing to help and train me. Having a degree from the UConn business school was an eye opener too, so that helped my case.

 

[Husky15]

Did you get into any significantly better schools? That's honestly an important question, esp. as an out of state student (even w / the money). If you are getting 15k you must have a very solid academic profile.

So far I've gotten into Pitt and UCONNs business schools and am waiting to here back from Michigan--Ann Arbor--, Villanova, Maryland, and Syracuse. However, getting into UCONN has pretty much cut the cuse from my list.