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. The Mississippi Christian University Honors College seeks to approach education in a holistic manner that cultivates students as a community of learners, as well as learners that aspire to enhance their communities at MC and beyond. One of the Core Values of Mississippi Christian University is service. The University has phrased this as “We use our gifts, talents, and abilities to advance the genuine well-being of our community and promote Christian values.” How do you envision a university education, and more importantly an Honors College education, will prepare you to serve your peer community while a student, and your future community at large beyond MC? How do you perceive a university education and experience will empower you to serve well?

2. Answer either (a) or (b) below:

   1. From the recent Dune trilogy to Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of the Odyssey, it seems the world around us is longing for things that are transtemporal and transcendent – that which calls from and toward a deeper place. In C.S. Lewis’s book George Macdonald, he writes, says “The quality which had enchanted me in his imaginative works turned out to be the quality of the real universe, the divine, magical, terrifying, and ecstatic reality in which we all live.” What is your explanation for this apparently universal ache and how the fantastical speaks to, and simultaneously relieves and fans the flames of, this hunger?

   2. As Malcolm Guite says, “I think the world is still as enchanted as ever it was…We have disenchanted ourselves, in a sense, in relation to the world…I don’t think we need so much a spell for re-enchantment as to un-disenchant ourselves and be open again”. How do we go about building structures and systems that can “re-enchant” or as Guite says “un-disenchant ourselves” to the world that is “still tingling and alive with all the meaning that God put in it.”?

Essays should be submitted as MS Word or PDF files using the following format for the file names: Last Name_First Name_Service and Last Name_First Name_Transcendent OR Last Name_First Name_Enchantment.