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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is an Honors College? How is it different from the regular university? And how is it different from UVa's Echols/Rodman, which never uses the word "honors". I am honestly confused. [/quote]

There’s no standardized definitions so you really need to read the details for each school being considered. But in general, and honors college acts more like a small school within a big school. Likely to offer honors-only dorms and class sections, sometimes like a living-learning community, so that honors students are largely surrounded by other honors students at least in the first year or two.

An honors program is likely less formal and “separated,” for lack of a better term. It might offer perks like earlier registration, but not a separate dorm or designated class sections.

Some schools may have programs (whatever they choose to call them) that fall somewhere in the middle. Nothing is standardized.

UVA’s programs are functionally honors without calling them that. [/quote]

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