<p>No to better dining options but dining’s okay overall. It depends how proficient you’re parents were in the kitchen growing up. In my case, my mom (love her to death) was an awful cook so I love the dining halls 
You’ll almost always find something you want to eat. </p>
<p>As far as I can tell everyone one who wants housing can get housing if you’re not picky about location so it hasn’t been an issue. The way the lottery system works is easy to attach yourself to someone with a better number if you get screwed and I think honors gives you some sort of housing priority. Again, hasn’t come up.</p>
<p>I think its mostly the number of occupants, the suites hold 6 iirc. Don’t really know all that much about this.</p>
<p>In general the honors program kind of blows. The qualifications aren’t particularly rigorous so while we may be “the smartest kids on campus” there’s a lot of variance 
What the program really is is a hook to grab moderately above average students, it really only offers two benefits. </p>
<p>You get to take honors classes with out getting a special permission number (but usually honors sections only exist for intro level course so the farther you get in your major the more this benefit diminishes) which are usually better courses taught at a faster pace and in greater detail (but I’ve basically only taken math honors courses, not sure about l.a.). Also it sounds better which is helpful when you’re trying to get positions on campus and (hopefully) when you apply for a job. I guess you command a little more respect academically but imo that respect is misplaced. Then again, apparently you need a 3.5 each semester to stay in so maybe graduating with it is impressive to someone.</p>
<p>It’s not without drawbacks either, you have to fulfill a foreign lang requirement which is a pain in the ass if you haven’t ap’d out of part of it. I know a lot of very smart kids who won’t finish the program because they have better things to take (grad level math, double majors, etc). Also you have to take colloquiums which are utterly worthless.</p>
<p>This went kind of long, sorry about that. Hope this helps you or someone.</p>