SMWC accepting applications for Honors Program
Posted on: 01/14
Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) is now accepting applications for its undergraduate campus-based Honors Program.
The Honors Program at SMWC was created to attract and challenge high-ability students to achieve the highest standards of academic, professional, and personal excellence. The program will offer students an enriched curriculum that will broaden their cultural awareness, deepen their knowledge, enhance their creativity, sharpen their research and writing skills and foster leadership.
The College has designed a slate of courses for the honors program that emphasize perspectives that The Woods as a whole embraces, such as studies in creative, expressive, scientific and social/cultural disciplines.
In addition to enhanced curriculum and cultural activities, Honor Program students also get preferred, early registration for classes; membership in SMWC’s Honors Student Association; and monthly luncheons with SMWC President David Behrs.
Prospective campus-based students who apply for the honors program should have a minimum SAT score of 1100 (combined math and critical reading scores) or 24 on the ACT; a high school grade point average of 3.5 or higher; and excellent writing skills. Applicants will also be required to submit a letter of recommendation from one of their high school teachers and complete an essay on a predetermined topic.
Transfer students with a minimum of 15 unit credits and at least a 3.5 commutative GPA will also be considered for admission to the Honors Program, and the Honors Committee will examine transfer students applications on an individual basis using college/university grades in lieu of SAT/ACT scores and high school GPA. Transfer students who are admitted to the Honors Program will be required to complete all of the curricular and co-curricular requirements, except ID 100/105 if it has already been waived.
Founded in 1840 by Saint Mother Theodore Guerin and the Sisters of Providence, Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College is the oldest Catholic liberal arts college for women in the United States.Today, SMWC thrives by offering a rich liberal arts education, scholarships and financial aid opportunities to make college affordable, individual attention, a value-centered education in a Catholic tradition, and a wide variety of student leadership activities. Both Princeton Review and U.S.News & World Report consistently rank SMWC as one of the Best Baccalaureate Colleges in the Midwest.
The College is committed to making private higher education affordable. Approximately 95% of campus-based undergraduate students at SMWC receive academic or need-based financial aid. In addition, the College has partnered with Ivy Tech Community College to provide Ivy Tech graduates with transfer grants that can be applied towards the cost of tuition for SMWC’s undergraduate degree programs.
SMWC is located on a beautiful 67-acre campus near Terre Haute, Ind., and the College offers campus-based undergraduate degree programs for women and distance undergraduate and graduate programs for women and men.
For more information about the new Honors Program at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College, contact Troy Brownfield at tbrownfield@smwc.edu or 812-535-5140, or the SMWC Office of Admission at smwcadms@smwc.edu, 812-535-5106 or 1-800-926-SMWC. More information is also available online at honorsprogram.smwc.edu.
