<p>Definitely look into honors college no matter what, even if rather live with athletes than honors dorm. Of the 8 honors classes D2 had freshman year only one would probably fall under the category of “harder” than regular and it was an upper level seminar. The regular classes just honors sections were no harder, just smaller classes and better professors. She enjoyed the fact that all students in the class were engaged in what was going on.</p>
<p>There was one science class that she didn’t love the prof and would have rather had the guy teaching non-honors, but that’s just the way it is. It’s nice to get extra advisement support. D2 loves her honors advisor and finds her a good person to talk to about changing majors, etc. Pretty easy to get classes you would have to have anyway in honors. There are honors sections of classes like Eng 101, 102, sciences, math, etc. And if it gets too much down the road, no one forces you to finish in honors!</p>
<p>One other thing, honors really stresses that students should be involved in USC as a whole, not just academics so I think they would be very supportive of athletes. Good luck.</p>