Hi,
I am currently in my third year of a flagships honors program and have not found the classes to be even slightly more difficult than normal courses. Maybe more chatty, but not more rigorous. Based on my experience, I may or may not do the honors program again. Still trying to determine the value. I definitely would not base my college selection on an honors program. Finally, as a future employer I would give very little weight to honors classes if I were trying trying to ascertain rigor or intelligence. Some of the classes were smaller than regular courses, most of the students were pretty competitive coming out of high school and a few of the classes had no test or graded assignments, your grade was totally based on class participation. Basically if you could talk you got an A. Loved those 2 classes. At any rate, some kids love to say they are “in the Honors College”, for me it has been more of an opportunity to meet people outside my more technical degree program.