| Join the honors college. It gives you a lot of extra opportunities, and it doesn't really matter if you end up not meeting the requirements and get kicked out.
Benefits:
Honors housing (both better location, and are surrounded by relatively more capable/motivated students)
Great Books (it goes towards first year writing and distribution for humanities, whereas pretty much everybody else has to do a class that just counts for first year writing)
Special trips, events, discussions with famous people (that are completely optional if none of that crap interests you)
Better advising (they recognize you as capable, and more likely to support you in anything you might want to try)
Detriments:
If you don't feel like meeting the requirements, you just don't bother meeting those requirements, and you might get a letter at the end of sophomore year saying you're not in Honors college anymore. You will have already taken Great Books, and spent one or two years in the dorms with Honors housing (most people move off-campus after sophomore year, anyways). In every other way, you'll be in the same position as if you'd never joined. You can even still graduate with honors, as doing an honors concentration is independent of the honors college, which is really mainly for underclassmen. |