Application Requirements
Please review these application requirements before submitting your application.
You should request a letter of recommendation from two recommenders who can comment meaningfully on your academic qualifications, leadership abilities, and character strengths. Recommendation letters need to be emailed to honors@mc.edu. Additional information for recommendation letter writers can be found here.
You should submit a resume of no more than two pages that highlights your academic and extracurricular involvement and achievements during high school.
You should respond to both of the following prompts in a separate essay of no more than 700 words. Please fit onto a single page and at the end of the essay list your total word count. Your essays will be evaluated based on a combination of content, organization, creativity, and substance.
- Research Increasingly shows that students who have acquired an internal state of resilience are more apt to succeed in their education endeavors and life beyond college. Please share how you have experienced a situation or setting where resilience was necessary, and how you were challenged and shaped by this experience.
- The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky asserts a bold statement through one of his characters that “Beauty will save the world.” How might this assertion, if received as reality, provide a means of healing in a culture becoming increasingly fractured and polarized?
December 11, 2023 is the deadline for ALL materials. Application documents will be submitted electronically via the MC Student Application Portal. Please advise your recommenders of this due date.
Interview Process
Upon review of all completed applications, selected applicants will be invited to participate in the Honors College interview process. Interviews for the Honors College will be conducted on January 29, 2024 and February 1, 2024. Applicants to the Honors College will be interviewed on campus by Honors College faculty members. A dinner will be held on the evening of your HC interview at 6:30 p.m., and all competing scholars and their accompanying family are invited to attend. Students selected for an interview will participate in MMI style interviews.
Additional Opportunities
Honors College applicants are strongly encouraged to also compete in the Select Scholars Competition; the two competitions are not mutually exclusive. Students also participating in this competition will have an additional interview with the Admissions Committee on the following day. Please see the Select Scholars Competition page for additional information and requirements.
Questions
If you have any questions or problems with the application process, please contact MC Admissions info. 601.925.3800 or Admissions@mc.edu.
