<p>@BoredEngineer</p>
<p>Honors helps a TON for liberal arts majors. My CC’s Honors transfer rate to UCLA is like 90%. I’ve seen under-qualified students with 3.5-3.6s that completed Honors and had student govt ECs get into majors with over 3.7 avg GPAs. </p>
<p>With engineering there is no honors transfer agreement so while it would look better on your transcript I don’t think the effects would be as prominent. Not enough to justify waiting an extra year to transfer. </p>
<p>A lot of engineering transfer will come off pointed. They will only have engineering ECs. If you can come off well-rounded through ECs like student govt, volunteering, maybe a sport, etc it will help you greatly. </p>