Incoming First-Year Students

Not really. The courses typically require different kinds of projects and in-class activities than the majority of non-Honors courses do--typically more discussion, more student choices for projects, more guest experts consulting with the class, and more out-of-class learning experiences.

Absolutely! We have many students in very demanding majors, and they thrive in the Honors Program, too. Most of them really welcome the opportunity to study topics beyond their majors.

Yes! The proportion of students in the Honors Program who are scholar-athletes matches the proportion of student-athletes at the college as a whole. Of course time management is essential, but our scholar-athletes have performed extremely well in both academics and athletics.

Maybe. Each spring we accept a small number of rising sophomore students to join the Honors Program in the next fall and to participate in it for their remaining undergraduate years. However, year one is the best time for students to join, because our curriculum requirements overlap with many of the courses that you'll be taking in year one. And students in accelerated programs (that is, those majors that finish undergraduate requirements in six or seven semesters) who join the Honors Program after year one miss out on more opportunities than they would have had if they joined as first-year students.