The Honors Application Prompts
Your Honors application allows you to tell us who you really are. Please share aspects of yourself that will help us understand what motivates you, how you want to grow as an individual, and how you want to contribute to the Honors College and the world.
A complete application consists of two parts. Please complete both parts, both Part I and Part II below.
Part 1: Why UW Honors?
Please write an essay of 100-150 words answering the following question:
Based on your preliminary review of the UW Honors College curriculum, requirements and opportunities, (or your visit if you were able to do so!), what aspects of the program appeal to you most?
PART II: What makes you tick?
Please respond to one and only one of the four prompts provided below:
1. In an essay of 250-500 words describe a problem you've solved or would like to solve. It can be a personal or intellectual challenge, a research query, an ethical dilemma, or a community concern. Explain the problem’s significance, what challenges it poses, and what steps you took or could take to solve it. Please also discuss the impact of your solution.
2. Please share a meaningful quotation from a book, a song, a film, etc., and in an essay of 250-500 words explain why it is important to you. How does it express who you are or hope to become?
3. Choose one of the following quotations and explain how it fits with your thinking in an essay of 250-500 words. Please refer to the quotation and also feel free to go beyond it:
- “It is what we think we know already that often prevents us from learning.” (Claude Bernard, scientist)
- “Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.” (Marian Wright Edelman, children’s rights activist)
- “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” (Anne Frank, diarist and Holocaust victim)
4. Please share a short video, power point, or presentation in some other modality of a project you have completed, either individually or as part of a group. In an essay of 100 words explain how this projects demonstrates your commitment to one or more of the following Honors priorities:
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creative thinking
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critical thinking
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problem solving
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innovation and change
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out-of-the-box approaches
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making the world a better place.
Information about the Application Process
- The Honors College admissions committee considers academic performance holistically alongside your application and your high school transcript.
- Students admitted into the Honors College who are College of Engineering majors will automatically be accepted as Honors Engineering students.
- Since Fall 2023, the University of Wyoming Honors College does not require SAT or ACT scores, although we will consider them if you provide them (test scores are still required to be considered for financial aid from UW).
- Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Students are admitted to the Honors College only after they have been accepted to UW.
- We welcome applications from new transfer students. Transfer students entering the Honors College typically have an overall college GPA of 3.25 or higher, though this is not a requirement to be accepted into Honors. If a transfer student has completed 30+ post-high school credit hours, some first-year requirements in the Honors College may be waived.
Why is the Honors College right for you?
Are you curious? Do you want to make a difference in the world? Do you think outside the box? We in the Honors College also think outside the box to make a difference in your education.
