Agree with SimpleLife, there are far more options in the ‘early years’ for everyone. Mine has been able to manipulate some of his other activities to accommodate his courses (change of meeting times for example- but that is due to being in leadership). He is also in Mays, which does have several honors course options due to the Business Honors major ( I believe it is the only honors major at TAMU- unless someone knows of another?). IF you are in an honors program, be sure to check the requirements early.
One thing to note, taking honors courses is not the same thing as graduating with honors -those are based on GPA, there is no requirement to take ANY honors courses (nor to be in an honors program) to graduate with latin honors. There are just 3 firm numerical GPA number ranges that must be met upon graduation. http://graduation.tamu.edu/honors.html
One note on the honors courses - you do NOT have to be in an honors program to take an honors course. You DO have to qualify to take them, freshmen first semester by rank/ score after that by GPA. So what you get is students who are either in an honors program or alternatively above a certain GPA. So if your student doesn’t get into an honors program they can still take the courses. http://honorsprograms.tamu.edu/Home