Honors College Admissions

Before you can apply to the Honors College, you must first apply to the university. Click here to apply on the undergraduate application if you have not done so already. After applying, please also submit required university admissions documents of high school transcript and official test score. Your MC Admissions Counselor will contact you after you apply to guide you through the process.

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.

1. Many philosophers and theologians assert that of all creatures to inhabit earth, only humans are truly creative – taking what is available unto them and making with intention something more than the sum of the parts. Creativity is found in far more than the classically bounded Fine Arts. Expound upon how you have seen creativity arise and be expressed from who you are, what sort of effort is required to accomplish this endeavor, and how this creative expression has been interlinked with the community around you.
2. In the 15th edition of the publication We Are Makers by Kate and Jack Lennie, the writers open this edition with the phrase “Algorithms distort our perceptions, machines outpace our hands and efficiency smothers curiosity”. Expound upon how you perceive these stated relationships have already impacted college-bound students such as yourself. Additionally, using the We Are Makers quote for guidance, in a more comprehensive manner further elaborate how you conjecture students, who will eventually be adults, of your generation are to steward data, technology, and human creativity to promote holistic flourishing of humanity.

Essays should be submitted as MS Word or PDF files using the following format for the file names: Last Name_First Name_Creativity or Last Name_First Name_Makers.