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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, it is worth it. If these are the schools she gets into, and she wants a more challenging academic experience, you will be glad you submitted the application. Who cares that they are her safety schools? You are applying for a reason (you can't guarantee she will be admitted elsewhere), so do it right.

I had to attend my state university for financial reasons, even though I was admitted to several highly-regarded SLACs. The honors program saved me. Not only were my courses more challenging and my course of study more directed (I found my honors thesis advisors via classes I took my first two years, all through the honors program), but it's how I met students who were more academically inclined. At these big state schools, there are many students there for the college "experience" and who could care less about academics. But I wanted/needed to get a really good education, and planned to go to grad school (which I did). I would have been lost in the non-honors track.

Also, my honors program had an honors dorm where I lived my Freshman year, and that experience alone was worth it. I had friends who only did the honors track for that first year and then left it because they didn't want to write a senior thesis. But the friends they made that first year stayed with them through school and I think it is otherwise easy to get lost at a school like that.

Anyway, I highly recommend honors programs for academic students. It can also make going to a big state school feel like less of a let-down if you originally imagined a different college environment.[/quote]

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