Is it worth doing honors?

SimpleLife
Mon, 22 Aug 2011 23:46:14 +0000

When we visited with the head of the honors department in the early spring, she told us that the whole program was just about to be re-vamped. I don’t remember hearing that students would be required to live in the honors dorms, but that’s certainly believable. We did hear that the auto-admit system based on scores, etc, was going to change. And that students would no longer be permitted to “linger” in the program, using the benefit of early registration without participation. They wanted to require so many honor credits, or something like that. My son and I liked all the new ideas. It seemed like they would give the honors program more credibility and value. We’ll see. They were in the process of solidifying all the new policies at the time, and they were trying to decide how to implement them – grandfather some things in, not grandfather other things in. It’s going to be interesting.

Isu1993, what’s wrong with the honors dorms, in your opinion? What is it about them that would make you give up the honors program in order to avoid them?