<p>Honor Colleges, usually combined with generous merit aid, have been very successful at building a cadre of high performing students at public universities. It doesn’t turn them into “public Ivys”, but it does allow them to recruit high stat students.</p>
<p>Slamherst, at first I thought your #1 point (“The students act and talk differently than the rest, and they dress a bit preppier”) was an attempt at sly humor. But I guess not. Is the difference that great between the bulk of UMass students and the ComCol students?</p>