<p>There are three things that can be considered “honors college.” </p>
<p>The first one (and the one I think you are talking about) is the general honors program (Hume Hall and all that), which is not specific to any one college. How important will it be to med/graduate school? Well it won’t make or break your application but really when applying to graduate school it’s nice to be able to put more things down (it’s probably more useful that you get honors advisors which are pretty awesome although limited in their powers now, and they have a nice scholarship).</p>
<p>The second one is available through the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS), and they have a specific honors program. </p>
<p>The third one is related to your specific major (summa cum laude and all that latin stuff). Getting highest honors is nice, but I don’t think you’ll know by the time you actually apply and are accepted to graduate school so this also may not be too important.</p>
<p>All of these are essentially independent (although the CALS honors program requires a thesis and is therefore related to the latin honors).</p>