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Is there any chance your son will be a national merit semifinalist/finalist?
I can't offer any wisdom on honors classes since I'm going to be a freshman in the fall and thus haven't taken any (but I am registered for an honors section of chemistry with an honors lab) but from my perspective I feel like I'm going to join a closely-knit honors community, even though there is no explicit "honors college."
Now... I'm not sure exactly how accessible all of the honors things are to non-scholarship holders. National merit finalists (and I think all four year academic scholarship holders) are guaranteed a spot in one of the honors dorms as well as some great scholarship money. I think they offer a few scholarships to exceptional non-national merit students but I'm not precisely sure about the details. At my recent orientation they did say that there is a waiting list for honors housing.
I would say that if your S might become a national scholar and interested in A&M, he should attend one of the national scholar campus visit days in January or a local event (the honors programs people host several such events in most of the cities in Texas.) I didn't really like SHIP too much but I came to love the campus/people through more a more personalized visit. They treat their scholarship winners very very very well.
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