{"id":6738,"date":"2019-03-05T08:27:28","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=6738"},"modified":"2019-03-05T13:15:54","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:15:54","slug":"why-am-i-in-the-honors-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/03\/05\/why-am-i-in-the-honors-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Why am I in the honors program?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw030519-2.jpg\" alt=\"Why am I in the honors program?\" class=\"wp-image-6735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw030519-2.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/aw030519-2-300x293.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Why am I in the honors program?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Presumably because you met criteria either when you were admitted to BC (high-school achievement, aptitude test scores, teacher recommendations, and the content and quality of application essays and other writing samples) or later on the basis of instructor recommendations and exceptionally strong academic performance. The coursework prepares you to be a critical thinker thoroughly grounded in a European cultural tradition (b<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BC-honors\">it.ly\/BC-honors)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presumably because you met criteria either when you were admitted to BC (high-school achievement, aptitude test scores, teacher recommendations, and the content and quality of application essays and other writing samples) or later on the basis of instructor recommendations and exceptionally strong academic performance. The coursework prepares you to be a critical thinker thoroughly grounded &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/03\/05\/why-am-i-in-the-honors-program\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why am I in the honors program?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,18],"tags":[504],"class_list":["post-6738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academics","category-life-career","tag-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6741,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6738\/revisions\/6741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}