The article states that one characteristic of fully developed Honors College is that “a fully developed Honors College should exercise considerable control over honors recruitment and admissions, including the appropriate size of the incoming class” and the Honors College of Southern Arkansas University does fulfill this requirement.
Honors College recruits students. But if should be more efficient. Personally, I never received information about the Honors College. It would be more efficient if the Honors College was able to inform all the applicants who have made a certain GPA, SAT or SAT score that they are eligible to apply.
Admissions to the Honors College is by a separate application. The applicants to Honors College are required to complete and submit an additional application. The application contains general questions and two essays. In addition to the academic requirements, the essays give the student a chance to tell the college officials why that student wants to be in the Honors College. This extra information allows the Honors College to choose or filter students and select those that would best meet the requirements of the Honors College.
The Honors College has and appropriate number of incoming freshman. By regulating the number of incoming freshman the college can maintain housing in an appropriate manner and provide comfortable accommodation to each and every student and I believe apt accommodation is vital for academic excellence. A regulated intake of students also allows the honors classes to be smaller. It is crucial to have a low enough number of students so that each on can communicate with the professor freely, but it is also important to have enough students in the class to make discussions more enriched. I believe the Honors College has done a good job at admitting an appropriate number of students.
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