<p>What perks do students in the honors program have that the gen population dont?</p>
<p>I hear they have better housing.</p>
<p>they get to register before everybody else - that is a perk!</p>
<p>the advisor my son got has become a true friend and I think the "smallness" of the program helped with that.</p>
<p>he has enjoyed most of the honors classes that he took - especially the English and econ ones.</p>
<p>Hume (the honors dorm) is nice, but not for everyone...</p>
<p>Why isn't it for everyone? Just that they don't have the space for everyone in the honors program or some personality types wouldn't enjoy it?</p>
<p>My s just didn't like it too much. Not to offend anyone, but he found it a bit nerdy (nothing wrong with that, just not "him") so spent most of his time at other friends' dorms. </p>
<p>One other drawback of Hume is that it was really far from his classes and the dining halls, so he just used gator bucks at the student center.</p>
<p>BUT, it is really nice and clean!!</p>
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<p>I personally think there are other dorms I would rather live in. Including anything in the Murphree Area<a href="in%20descending%20order-Murphree,%20Buckman,%20Fletcher,%20Thomas,%20Sledd">/u</a> and the Keys Complex<a href="another%20top%20pick">/u</a> are my personal picks. From an upperclassmen prospective.</p>
<p>I'm not in it so these are from my observations and word-of-mouth.</p>
<p>-smaller classes
-some classes at hume
-advisers are good
-for prestigious award/scholarship nominations (e.g Goldwater, Rhoades, etc) they tend to look for honors students and not inform nonhonors ones</p>
<p>...cant think of anything else</p>
<p>-More access to research opportunities (you can just as easily get them even if you aren't in the programs, but they let you know when they are available)
-Smaller classes, but also access to a wider set of course offering. It allows you to have more choices, you can say. </p>
<p>The scholarship nominations that ASMAJ mentioned is imo the most important 'perk'. Advisers let you know when opportunities come up.</p>
<p>As for Hume,
It's new and you share your bathroom with 3 other people instead of 30 other people. And also, a maintenance person comes in every Saturday to clean your bathroom. So, I guess that's a perk.</p>
<p>My son lived in Hume. He said the nerdiness depends on which hall you live on. He thought his hall had pretty cool kids for the most part, but a freind of his lived on another hall and it was a much different experience.<br>
My son ended up joining a frat, so he liked having a quiet dorm to go back to. It's very clean, the location is great (right next to freshman parking lot so your car is in your backyard).
He also thought the HOnors classes for stuff like Chemistry were better than the regular big classes. He felt like since certain classes were "weed out" classes, the big class teachers were not going out of their way to do the students any favors; whereas in the Honors classes they want all the students to succeed (assuming they're putting in the effort).
The one class he didn't particularly care for was the Science For Life Honors class. He thought he would have got a lot more out of it had he waited to take it after his freshman year.</p>