<p>Go ahead and apply for the Engineering housing. Honors space is quite limited and they interview you - I want to say during Orientation, but I just can’t remember. They don’t have many spaces for freshmen in the Honors dorms. My son started off in Honors, but went with Engineering theme housing. The hill going up to Hillcrest was brutal since he had to walk up there 4x during 1 of his orientation days and it was HOT! haha, he said that was enough!</p>