<p>how are the required classes as for difficulty level and are the professors amenable to making some non-honor classes honor classes if honor students request it?</p>
<p>I doubt it. Non-honors classes tend to be much larger than their honors counter-part.</p>
<p>The main benefit of honors classes is small class size (with other highly motivated students) for introductory level courses that many students take (intro psych, macro/micro econ etc.) In a few cases there are honors sections of medium sized classes which meet separately once a week for an extra discussion section/group project. This can range from very beneficial to merely more work for the same class. </p>
<p>I would expect that maybe about half of your professors would be willing to convert a course to “honors” if you do an extra project, but what is the point? Don’t get me wrong, doing undergraduate research or extra projects are on their own very rewarding, but doing it simply to get honors credit for a course is pointless imo. College is much different than high school and its no longer necessary to run around taking every class honors or AP. I would, on the other hand, encourage you to seek out graduate level courses as soon as you can, especially if you consider pursuing a graduate education in a certain discipline.</p>