<p>No, honors is offered to the top 10% of ADMITTED students. If those 10% decide to come at the same rate as the 90% that didn’t get honors, then it’s fine and honors is about 10% of the class.</p>
<p>But the issue with honors is that a huge amount of those students decided to say yes when Northeastern figured they’d say no. So honors was massive the past two years, but the 10% hasn’t changed.</p>
<p>I guess technically it might be “harder” to get into honors just because the applicant pool is getting better and better (so it’s harder to be that 10%), but the honors department has made it very clear in the past two years that they wouldn’t drop the percentage accepted. A lot of people disagree, but so far honors is determined to stay at 10%- even if they get over 500 first year students because of it.</p>