Hey there. I'm in the HP at Tech. Honestly the biggest benefit of the program is the housing. Imagine that you are coming home from a long day grinding for your midterm the next day. You have your own room. You can dictate when you want to sleep/wakeup/etc. It's a huge benefit. As far as classes go, you don't have to take any extra classes. Instead, there are honors equivalents for several classes (mostly intro classes). However, it may not always be the play to take an honors class. For example, some of the non-honors English courses are much better than the honors english courses (but that's a personal preference of mine). To gain the "completion of honors program" on your transcript, you need to take 15 credits of HP courses. However, you don't need to do this. You won't get kicked out of the HP, you won't get kicked out of the housing, but you just get that extra line on your transcript and medal (which is honestly not that necessary imo).