You technically can move back onto campus, but it’s extremely difficult as priority is given to students who are already living on campus. It’s as good as not being able to move-back onto campus.
@SahilC how are roommates chosen for CHC housing? Do the students fill out a questionnaire (are you a morning person? Do you like music on when you study? etc) and they try to match up similar people? Or is it totally random?
Thanks!
@SahilC does the honors college feel like a separate community from the school as a whole, or does it feel like you are still in the large university? Also, is the CHC housing in the same building as the classes, the CHC resources, and the CHC management and all of that kind of stuff or is it set up where the CHC housing is in one place, and you go and take your classes and such around campus like regular students?
@ConfusedMominMA Yep, it’s a small questionaire and to be honest, some people feel it isn’t that effective. Luckily, I have a great roommate, but I know people who absolutely don’t get along with theirs. I found my roommate by talking to people on the Facebook group before school started.
@JoeSweeney83 Well, it feels like both! You got both advantages 
So some classes are taking in the Elm Classrooms (like college writing, the Honors 201 seminar) but most of the “Honors” courses you see (like Math 131H) are taken in regular buildings, but with less students (25) and (usually) a “better” professor.
Many classes are still with non-honors students. And to be honest, a lot of courses are not even offered with Honors versions. For eg, none of my CS classes have Honors versions, but I took Calc 1 and 2 with Honors.
@SahilC So there really isn’t much benefit in being in the honors college as a CS major besides for living in the honors dorm?
^^^ There are other benefits. One big one is Departmental Honors. This is basically a higher -level honors course track that requires you to take on a research project/thesis within your major in order to graduate. It is completely optional and available to any Comm Coll student, but it seems to be well organized for CS. There’s a list of opportunities on the CS website and you get to work one-on-one with a professor on CS research or a project.
@SahilC thanks for the info on how roommates are picked.
My D heard today that she got into the Isenberg Honors RAP in the Honors dorm!! Yay! One less thing to worry about.
@SahilC I got into the Honors Isenberg RAP in Melville and I am wondering if Melville is nicer than the other buildings in Southwest or is it the same as all of the other low rises there? Thanks!
@ConfusedMominMA - Wow, congratulations!
@conward32 - Sorry, I have no idea about Southwest! 
I’ve been off the site for a while, but info might be useful to others. My S earned A LOT of AP & IB credit. BUT, for Bio, they would only give him credit for the one semester course for non-Bio majors. He ended up taking the full year Bio course & acing both semesters (he felt the High Level IB Bio course he took in high school was a better course). For Freshman Chemistry, he was able to take the Honors college version. That class had no more than thirty (30) students in it! And as someone else already pointed out, the higher the class # (200s, 300s, 400s), the class size usually decreases.
I’m gonna be a senior in high school this year. I’m applying to the business (marketing) which is apparently super selective. I have a 3.57 GPA and a 1950 SAT… What’s my chance of getting in? I go to one of the top high schools in MA and because a lot of Ivy-Leaguers apply to UMass as their safety, the average accepted GPA is a 3.83. I’m just worried bc my school kinda screws me over and the business school is selective. Thanks so much for your help!