SSA + Hutton Honors

My daughter was directly admitted to her program and invited to apply for SSA, but her ACT score was 1 point below the honors college direct admit. I am not familiar with how this works. I saw that you can petition for honors college by sending in a personal statement and additional teacher recommendation. If you are directly admitted to a program, should she also petition to be admitted to honors college. She wouldn’t be eligible for honors college scholarship (not being a direct admit). In other words, can you be directly admitted to a program and admitted to honors college, and is it valuable to do both?