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Requirements for
Admissions and Graduation
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Required of all recipients of Centennial and Honors
Scholarships but open to application from other
high-performing, highly motivated students, the Ina
E. Gordy Honors College is a means of adding depth
to undergraduate education by encouraging curiosity
and initiative and by providing an opportunity to
apply learning to significant projects. Honors
students are expected to exhibit academic excellence
not only in their grades but also in their
willingness to pursue knowledge in various fields
other than their chosen majors.
Entering freshmen may apply for admission to the
Honors College if they have a composite ACT score of
24 (or the equivalent on other entrance exams).
After their first semester in residence, other
interested students may apply for admission on the
basis of a quality point average of at least 3.30
QPA after 15 semester hours of credit, a 3.50 after
30 semester hours of credit, and a 3.70 after 60
semester hours of credit. Only transfer students may
enter the Honors College after the sophomore year.
No student may enter in the senior year.
The easiest way to apply for admission to the Honors
College is to come to Scholars' Day or to McDevitt
Day. Students who do not come to one of those
scholarship days may request an application from the
Director of the Honors College.
All students participating in the Honors College are
required to take honors sections of core courses and
to complete the equivalent of one year of a foreign
language. During their freshman and sophomore years,
honors students attend the honors forum each
semester. In their junior year, honors students take
two special topics seminars on interdisciplinary
subjects; during their senior year, they complete a
research project and present it before the Honors
College at the Research Symposium. Junior transfer
students constitute the one exception to these
requirements. These students are not required to
take the honors core courses and the honors forum,
but they must complete all other requirements.
All honors students must maintain at least a 3.0 to
remain in the College. Students entering the
Independent Study must have a GPA of at least 3.30.
Students who fall below the required GPA will be
placed on honors probation and, if they fail to
raise their GPA, will be dismissed from the Honors
College. See the current bulletin for details.
A student who completes all requirements is eligible
to graduate with honors. These requirements include
the completion of the honors project and the
presentation of that project at the Research
Symposium to the satisfaction of the honors
student's project committee, the honors faculty
committee, and the Honors Director. Only upon
successful completion of all these requirements may
a student graduate with honors in his or her major.
Thus, it is possible that a student may successfully
complete the curriculum and then fail to graduate
with honors because the committee does not believe
that the quality of the honors project warrants that
prestige. The ultimate responsibility for
maintaining high standards in the Honors College
rests with the Honors Faculty Committee and the
Honors Director. In the rare event that theHonors
Faculty Committee has questions about the quality of
a particular project, the committee may request to
review the project and deny a student the privilege
of graduating with honors. |
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