<p>I thought I’d add that I know of one honors program that’s highly regarded. The University of Texas at Austin has a Plan II Honors program that requires students to take a very broad, liberal arts-based core curriculum, but then the students have great flexibility in pursuing double majors, dual degrees, and even triple majors. The program says that classes are small and are taught by top professors, which would be a great benefit at a school the size of UT Austin. To give you an idea of how competitive it is to get into this program, the program’s website states that it has often rejected students who actually got into Ivy League schools.</p>