The Honors Program at the University of Louisville is a place for like minded students to get together and express similar ideas and achieve their goals.

Our students do enjoy the challenge of taking the honors courses and the extra workload that it sometimes implies.

You mostly attract the most high achieving students and honors because they want that experience and access to resources.

The honors program presents many opportunities, including scholarships, honor specific housing, smaller class sizes, and getting more connected with your professors.

Honors does a good job of walking the line of really efficient competitiveness. It's not a dog eat dog world, it's really like we're all here to help each other because that's the best way to grow.

I chose the University a little bit because I knew when coming on campus, I was right at home. And I knew I would enjoy being here, especially seeing all the student life and the diversity across campus.

I'm currently a senior 3D fine arts major with a focus in sculpture I chose U of L over everything else and honors because it gave me access to resources that I really feel I couldn't get anywhere else.

I'm a junior neuroscience major. I chose U of L, because there's a pretty thorough network of resources to sort of be successful in the neuroscience field, which I thought was pretty valuable.

With biology, I'm hoping to apply to medical school and eventually go to the University of Louisville medical school to become a doctor. Here on campus. I've gotten involved in Honors Student Council being an honors host and a Gen scholars as well.

Honors advising is comprehensive and quick, the most recent registration day I had a problem with to my classes, and I was able to get an advising appointment as early as an hour after registration opened, everything worked out perfectly with the honors courses just because of having the advisors there to kind of point me in the right direction.

The staff here at the university of Louisville have exceeded my expectations, they are always willing to help and reaching out providing multiple materials and sources to learn the coursework.

For with honors, you get a lot closer relationships since do your one on one class, you have your advisor as your mentor in that class, so you already get to know them and they know your face. So since you get to know your professor more, you're kind of less hesitant to reach out to them when you are struggling.

One of the benefits of the honors courses are being in a smaller class and being more one on one with your professor,

you can really find honors classes that are 15, if not even less sometimes, especially with honors seminars, a big benefit of the smaller class sizes I feel is that your professors can really dig into course material without worrying about 30-40 students having to all get the same message. It's just that you have a group of like 15-20, and it can all move faster and more cohesive and more in depth.

Well, honors courses may be small, the honors seminars are even smaller. So they may be even 10 or less.

Honors seminars sometimes offer a travel seminar. And if your honor scholar then that means you get even closer priority for those travel seminars. And those are great because they always offer a structured travel experience. So if you're like, "I've never even left the state before I have no idea what I'm doing." That's such a safe and like welcoming environment to do your first study abroad trip with.

Being in an honors specific housing allows me to bounce off ideas for other people and get advice from people on other classes or opportunities available.

I don't think I've ever had an honors class where there wasn't a dedicated group where students were reminding each other of deadlines or pointing out different practice problems that really stuck out to them. And so when you have that, and when you can sort of get an idea of what other students are struggling with, you really stop feeling like you're the only one having a problem. So being able to, to communicate in that way really, like solved a lot of the sort of anxiety that came with first year and even in second year and beyond.

The community-first mentality is about reaching out and saying hi to people first. So freshmen get a really strong basis of knowing and understanding, you get the opportunity to say, "Hey, I've seen this person in my class." So I know I could walk down to their room and knock on it and be like, "Hey, I know we have that same class and you're free at this time. Do you want to hang out? Can you help me with a few questions that I have?"

In the honors program, I've never really seen a person, not excel. And with that also comes the willingness to help younger people also do that. It can be sort of intimidating at first. And so having someone who has taken the course to help the younger people really find what they need to like get their groove in a class allows students with that mentality to continue to have that and to never miss an opportunity. There's never a week where I don't get something from honors saying, Here's a scholarship opportunity, or here's a program you might be interested in.

U of L is a breadbasket of opportunities. What you do is what you make of it, and there's always so many opportunities for working hard.

The Honors Program really provided me a space to be myself.