Prospective Students
to the University?
If so, then you're ready to view the questions asked on each Honors College program application. This gives you the opportunity to compose your answers beforehand and use the copy/paste feature within the application.
You will receive a confirmation email when you have successfully applied to an Honors College program.
Honors freshmen take unique seminar classes. Students choose from an array of interesting topics: the philosophy of CS Lewis, trends in healthcare, American constitutional development, and much more.
At Baylor and especially in the Honors College, we are concerned that the "smart" you bring with you is here added to by knowledge, certainly – the specific knowledge and means of knowledge in the discipline or disciplines to which you will most be attracted. But we want for you more than that: we want you to add to intelligence and knowledge qualitatively higher and integrative achievements such as understanding and wisdom.
- Dr David L. Jeffrey
Distinguished Professor of Literature and Humanities in the Honors Program
Admissions
All highly qualified and highly motivated students entering Baylor University are eligible to apply to join the program as freshmen. Students are generally not required to have a specific minimum standardized-test score to be eligible to apply. Nonetheless, applicants are helped by having SAT or ACT scores at least in the average range set by prior years' Honors freshmen. The cohort entering the program in 2011 averaged around 1375 on the SAT (Math plus Critical Reading) and over 30 (Composite) on the ACT.
However, in addition to important numerical measures like these, we also value applications that demonstrate students' interests in the communal life of scholarship and service, that show how applicants want to ground themselves in great works inside and outside their principal fields of study, and that describe applicants' ambitions to connect with fellow students and faculty members in developing research projects that will, in many cases, set the stage for further study at the graduate- or professional-school level.
Click here to begin the Honors College application process.
A link to the updated Baylor Honors Program application will be posted shortly.
