<p>When you get invited to apply to the honors programs, they reply with an offer (or not) and then you choose whether or not to accept the invitation to join their program. You could always visit the dorms to see for yourself if the atmosphere would work for your student but it isn’t a commitment to join when you initially apply. Last school year was the first year of the mandatory dorm requirement, so we just had to guess what it might be like.</p>