<p>Honors has a few perks. The big one is early class registration priority. The small class thing for Honors is often not really accurate; many times the Honors section of a class is really just a few seats within a larger class that’s set aside for Honors students. Yes, there are some Honors-only courses but many of them will have no practical use (to be quite honest); they’re just fun sort of time-wasting, schedule-filling classes.</p>
<p>As for grad school, what a lot of grad schools will care about is how you did in undergrad, and how you did on the entrance exam of the program’s choosing (GRE, etc). In some grad schools, your undergrad major doesn’t even matter, so long as you have several foundation classes that relate at least a little bit to your grad program. </p>
<p>If you are planning on going to grad school, I cannot stress this enough: go to whichever school for undergrad that will cost you the least amount of money. You think undergrad might be expensive, but 2 years in grad school can put 4 years of undergrad to shame in the cost department. Financial aid for many grad schools is student loans only. </p>
<p>As for undergrad prestige, unless you’re in one of the Ivy-quality schools, prestige in undergrad honestly does not matter to most grad schools.</p>