Academically, Honors RAP students are provided with the advantages of a small liberal arts college experience— small seminar-style classes, close contact with faculty and other students, a strong supportive community— within the resources and diversity of a large, world-class state research university.  Honors RAP thus assists and supports its students in navigating the university while developing their own intellectual curiosity and skills, plus a life-long love of learning.

Honors RAP also offers returning students the opportunity for leadership within their own living-learning community.  Honors RAP student leaders serve as mentors for first year students, work closely with Honors RAP Directors, develop their own leadership skills, choose and implement extra-curricular activities, and serve as residence hall staff.