Why Wyoming Catholic College?

Wyoming Catholic College offers a true incarnational education. What does this mean? Our students are formed physically, spiritually, and intellectually through immersion in the wilderness of the Rocky Mountain West and in the intellectual heritage of the Judeo-Christian tradition. At the foothills of the Wind River Range, WCC promotes an environment of adventure and exploration, facilitating repeated encounters with God in the splendor of His natural creation. The journey for our students begins with a three-week backpacking expedition that sparks wonder, self-reflection, and poetic insight, laying the foundation for an education rooted in the real. This journey continues in the classroom, where students bring their newly-awakened sense of wonder to bear upon the most integrated curriculum in the world.

As they study the primary texts of the Great Books Canon in seminar-style classes, our students come to appreciate the intellectual riches of the Catholic Faith. Grappling with the deepest questions of human nature in our tight-knit community, WCC students progress exponentially in the pursuit of wisdom. Their education fosters in them a love and devotion for the True, Good, and Beautiful–and they embrace this love with their whole being. They are also equipped with the necessary skillset to champion these values in the modern world, as our curriculum emphasizes leadership at every level. This formation in leadership occurs not merely in the classroom, but also through spending 10 weeks in the wilderness, leading and participating in epic adventures such as rock climbing, backpacking, white-water rafting, and a semester of horsemanship. At graduation, our seniors receive a Stetson as their academic regalia. They depart from our community bearing this profoundly American symbol of hope, fortitude, and adventure–and with it the charge to go out into the world and sanctify all walks of life through their personal witness.

Most importantly, WCC’s entire education is oriented towards our Creator. Students live out their faith in the classroom, in our vibrant community life, and in our rich chaplaincy, which incorporates both the Roman and Byzantine Rites of the Catholic Church. This common practice of virtue and faith allows those in our community to cultivate a deep relationship with Christ that is punctuated by beauty, in the wilderness, in the liturgy, and in the Western tradition of artistic, literary, and musical creativity.

 

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Resources for Prospective Students

Wyoming Catholic College has a fully integrated curriculum in which each course builds upon the foundation of previous courses and is cross-integrated with other courses taken in the same semester and year. Due to this fact, anyone who attends the College enters as a freshman, regardless of previous college experience. A young adult who is considering transferring to Wyoming Catholic and is concerned about the loss of credits earned elsewhere is encouraged to keep in mind that students at the College benefit from a combination of courses unavailable at any other college in the country, such as the Freshman Fall Expedition, the equestrian program, the Trivium sequence for developing reasoning and communication skills, and our Latin immersion program. Even one who has taken courses similar to some of ours will encounter the material in new and exciting ways at Wyoming Catholic College, as several transfer students in our student body have discovered with delight.

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Wyoming Catholic College admits as regular students only individuals who have a highschool diploma or its recognized equivalent, or are beyond the age of compulsory education in Wyoming.

Due to the wide variety of schools and home schooling curricula, Wyoming Catholic College makes no specific course recommendations.  Nevertheless, the College expects incoming freshmen to have studied a standard Catholic curriculum of preparatory studies, including literature, grammar, American and European history, natural sciences (including biology and chemistry), catechesis in faith and morals, a foreign language, and mathematics up to algebra 2/trigonometry.  (While calculus and physics are very helpful, they are not a necessity.)  Students should know how to write well, as the College puts a premium on excellent writing.  Time management skills are absolutely critical, as the overall program of formation is rigorous and demanding.

 

The language of study is English. If English is a second language for the applicant, the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) must be passed.

 

FALL SPRING SUMMER
September:
Applications for Admissions Open		 February:
Admitted students attend Founders’ Competitions
Apply for Financial Aid by February 20 for most competitive Financial Aid Awards		 June:
PEAK High School Summer Program
Deadline to apply for undergraduate enrollment is June 15
October:
Admissions Open House Program		 March:
Rising Juniors and Seniors, register for PEAK by March 1 to secure the early bird registration discount		 July:
Recommended deadline to complete loan applications is July 1
Supplemental materials due July 1 (see information for Accepted Students)
Housing assignments announced July 15
Last week of July: New Student Welcome Week & 21-day expedition
November:
Apply by November 1 to receive a decision before Thanksgiving
Apply by November 15 to receive a decision before Christmas		 April:
Apply for Financial Aid by April 15 (limited aid after this date)
December:
Commit by December 31 to secure $1000 Summer Visit Credit		 May:
Enrollment deposit due May 1
Rolling admissions depending on availability begins after May 2

 

Our total cost of attendance—including tuition, room, board, books, and fees—is comparatively less than the national average for private colleges.

Yet we know even that amount can be a challenge. That’s why 98% of our students receive merit– and/or need-based aid, made possible through the generosity of our donors. Their support allows us to offer an education that costs students far less than the actual cost per student.

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Meet the Admissions Staff

Lucas Preble, Ed.D.
Dean of Student Services

Catherine Mershon, M.A.
Director of Admissions

John Walsh
Admissions Counselor

Joseph White
Admissions Counselor

Opportunities to Experience Wyoming Catholic College

PEAK High School Summer Program

Founders' Scholarship Competition

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Real Resolve: An Uncomfortable Education at Wyoming Catholic College

For many, January is a month of failed resolutions. No matter how strong our will might be on January 1st, a few weeks pass and we begin nibbling the chocolate in the pantry or sneaking in a cup of coffee every other morning. Come March, many resolutions are mere relics––flashes of momentary temperance and determination. We return to our normal, comfortable way of life as soon as the “new” year becomes normal and comfortable. 

In themselves, these failed resolutions are often harmless. They are considered “part of life” in the cycle of modern society. But in another sense, this consistent display of failed resolve belies a deeper ailment in the human spirit. We are intoxicated and bloated by the comfort of our modern world. The exponential development of technology in the last two centuries, while benefiting mankind tremendously, has also fundamentally transformed our way of life. We are constantly surrounded by devices and programs that are meticulously designed to provide maximal comfort and pleasure. Distasteful tasks are pushed further and further from everyday experience, and the mere touch of a button or swipe of a screen wields ever-increasing power over our environment. The result of this modern obsession with comfort is precisely what we witness every January: failure in resolve and aversion to suffering. Today’s world presents man with a marvelous wonderland of pleasures and entertainment, immediately available at the flip of a switch. Yet simultaneously, this modern vision obscures and undermines what is most meaningful in human life: those goods that require genuine sacrifice and self-gift. The core values of faith, family, and country––because they impose deep demands upon our souls––become inimical to the modern man of comfort. One cannot press a button to raise a good family. One cannot practice true religion or patriotism from the comfort of a gaming room. Thus, these central human goods fall under attack, being labeled as “old-fashioned” or “superstitious,” with those who promote them even being characterized as “bigots.” What is to be done about this crisis of the human spirit? How can one be reawakened to the “uncomfortable” goods of human life? 

Try hiking for 21-days in the wilderness with a 50lb pack on your back. Try spending hours in the saddle every week learning horsemanship. Try studying for hours every day the greatest works of human philosophy, literature, and art. Try celebrating the Great Fast during Lent in the Byzantine Rite. All these experiences are familiar to the Wyoming Catholic College student. Again and again throughout their four years, WCC students endure experiences that are intentionally uncomfortable. Why? Because it is only through deep trial and sacrifice that the human soul achieves the highest goods. At Wyoming Catholic College, these highest goods––the treasures of our Faith and heritage––serve as the center of our communal life. January is no exception. While the rest of the world is tiring of their resolutions, our freshmen are currently preparing to venture into Grand Teton National Park for their required Winter Trip. They will spend several days cross country skiing, building their own quinzee snow shelters and sleeping in them for two nights, often in negative temperatures. Along with their upperclassmen leaders, they will carve chapels in the snow (often including a high altar!) for our chaplain to celebrate Mass in the wilderness. Then, all students will return to Lander to resume their academic studies, facing a curriculum with no electives and no option to “drop classes.” Their courses will avoid using textbooks where information is “neatly packaged” for consumption. Instead, they will grapple with the source texts, learning calculus by reading Kepler and Newton and metaphysics through studying Aristotle, Aquinas, Hume, and Kant. In the end, they will experience a curriculum that deeply reorders their entire being––a program that bravely charges against the currents of modern secularism. The Wyoming Catholic College graduate will be reawakened to the meaningfulness of human experience––and will strive to answer the “uncomfortable,” sacrificial call of God’s love that beckons us all. Will you become a WCC graduate?  
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Full-Tuition Scholarship!

Our Founders’ Scholarship Competition is just around the corner! For this event, accepted students will join us in Wyoming to compete for a full-tuition award, engaging in various activities on campus. Competitors will audit live classes with our students, have discussions of their own with our faculty, and write a timed essay. They will also be immersed in our rich community life, venturing into the outdoors with our students and joyfully celebrating at the Dean’s Banquet. Time is running out to seize this wonderful opportunity! If you haven’t completed your application to WCC, do so today! If you’ve already been accepted, now is the time to register for Founders’!
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Financial Aid 

The Founders’ Scholarship Competition is only one component of our financial aid offerings. Beyond the full-tuition award, we offer generous merit scholarships that drastically reduce the cost of attendance for many of our students. Need-based financial aid can make the cost even lower, coming in the form of work-study positions and donor-sponsored grants. Now is the time to take advantage of our financial aid offerings! We encourage all accepted students and applicants to begin the aid process.

Student Spotlight! 

With the counselor travel schedule winding down, now is the perfect time to introduce some of our students! Over the next few months, expect to see several students in the spotlight to share their experience of Wyoming Catholic College! First up: 

Bren Walsh (Class of 2025) 

Bren grew up in Noblesville, Indiana in a household of 9 children. She loves hiking and exploring and has probably read way too much St. Augustine. She is currently a Senior at WCC and is preparing to give her Oration in February, sharing her thesis about the true nature of human enlightenment. 
Q. Looking back to freshman year of high school, were you planning to attend Wyoming Catholic College? 

No, I wanted to be a journalist. I was interested in being a war correspondent and doing work overseas. And at the time, I believed that going to an Ivy League institution would be the best guarantee of success for that profession. 

Q. What brought you to (and kept you at) WCC? 

I was initially drawn to the community and the classical education, integrated with experiential outdoor leadership education. But what ultimately kept me at the college was being in a community striving together for excellence in virtue and pursuing the truth together as a genuinely Catholic community––and the kinds of friendships that can only thrive in that environment. 

Q. What has been your favorite class at WCC, and why? 

Comedy and Tragedy with Dr. Cooper (Junior Year, 1st Semester), because it’s interesting learning about comic and tragic form, and how these literary forms express a true and meaningful and nuanced aspect of human life. Shakespeare is always worth studying. Chaucer is always worth studying. They are not “outdated” storytellers. But the thing that makes them timeless is not necessarily the content of their writing but the fact that they are––like all good literature––tapping into something deeper about human experience…things that we can’t explain except through literature. 

Q. What’s one thing you would tell high school students right now who are considering their college options?  

As someone who was attracted to the idea of an institution shrouded in “prestige,” like an Ivy League school or one with a large student population, it has been a very interesting lesson in humility for me to discover that the small liberal arts school that I go to, that isn’t necessarily “on the map” for most people, could truly change my life in such a meaningful way. And I have come to believe that being so invested in a small community like this––a small community pursuing truth together like the real meaning of a “college”––is conducive to charity and happiness in a way that I have never experienced before. So I would just encourage them not to be afraid of that.
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An Education in Eloquence

True students of the Liberal Arts are not ashamed of their education being dubbed “useless” by many in the secular world. Wyoming Catholic students do not subscribe to the idea that value is determined solely by profit or function. We study ancient texts and “useless” works of art because they are beautiful––and that is, quite simply, enough. Nevertheless, our students encounter a pleasant coincidence. They discover that immersing themselves deeply in what is true, good, and beautiful through a liberal education is precisely what is proper to human nature––and this kind of holistic formation spills over into man’s practical endeavors. In any career or vocation, deep human person skills are required, even more so than technical or specialized training. Every job, and especially every good job, requires critical thinking, communication, work ethic, and leadership. These invaluable qualities are the product, not of function-based training, but instead of broad intellectual formation as a human person. One becomes an excellent leader, thinker, and orator through liberal education.

This is particularly true at Wyoming Catholic College, where the Liberal Arts are studied with a unique methodology. Most of our classes take place in the seminar style, utilizing the Socratic Method. Our students learn through having conversations with each other and with their professors. Perhaps one of the most understated “results” of our education is the profound ability our graduates have of sparking and developing meaningful conversations. WCC students learn to articulate their own ideas powerfully and thoughtfully, while simultaneously learning to listen genuinely to the thoughts of others. Our students also experience rigorous formation in rhetoric––both written and oral––through our Trivium class sequence. Over the next few days, this formation will come into special focus. We are prepared to enjoy an exciting time at Wyoming Catholic College: Senior Orations Week. 

Having researched a thesis topic for nearly a year, our seniors are ready to share their profound insights with the wider student body, along with the community of Lander. Each senior will give a 30-minute oration on their topic from memory, and then face a 30-minute question and answer session that is open to both faculty and the community at large. Seniors will be carefully tested in the breadth and depth of their knowledge. But more importantly, they will have a chance to share with our tight-knit community a truth or idea that has spoken deeply to them in their time at WCC. There are so many good orations to choose from, but here is a small sampling of the topics covered: 

  • “Spies Can Lie: Reconciling Scholastic Thought with Political Reality” — Ethan Boord
  • “Angel or Animatron: The Simplification of Man in Scientific Materialism and Cartesian Dualism” — Hayley Heidt
  • “Why the Wheel and the Computer Are Different: The Foundation and Effects of Modern Technology” — Jacob Landry
  • “The Artist and His Humanity: The Tension Between Beauty and Morality in the Arts” — Grace Hamilton
  • “The Spirit of Adventure as a Foil to Modern Rationalism” — Joseph Collins
  • “Who Do You Think You Are?: Painful Providence and the Conversational God” — Marietta Mortensen

The richness of this intellectual banquet makes choosing just a few orations impossible. Thankfully, orations will be live-streamed and recorded this year, so you can tune in to every single one of them! 
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Founders’ Scholarship Competition

If you’d like to become one of these seniors some day, our Founders’ Scholarship Competition is a great chance to make the WCC education affordable. This prestigious award is offered to an exceptional applicant every year and provides a full-tuition scholarship! The competition weekends are just around the corner! Competitors will venture out to Lander over two weekends this month, auditing classes with our students, discussing in small-group seminars with our faculty, and writing a timed essay. The theme for the weekend this year is “Obedience and Its Limits.” Competitors will spend the weekend reflecting on the meaning of obedience, analyzing its true character and importance. Time is running out! All accepted students are encouraged to sign up today!

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PEAK 2025 Summer Program! 

There are only a few weeks left to secure the Early Bird Discount for our PEAK 2025 Summer Program. By signing up for PEAK on or before March 1st, you will secure a $300 discount! What are you waiting for? Sign up to join us in this awesome summer adventure! PEAK activities include classes with our faculty, horseback riding, rock climbing, swing dancing, and even backpacking. All this takes place within our rich community life, with the Sacraments being offered frequently in both the Byzantine and Roman Rites of the Catholic Church. PEAK participants learn about Wyoming Catholic College while having an utterly unique adventure in the beautiful Rocky Mountain West. Sign up before March 1st!

Student Spotlight! 

John Paul Nemec (Class of 2026) 

My name is John Paul Nemec. I grew up in a small town under the warm and blue Texas skies. I initially planned to major in engineering, but after visiting WCC, I fell in love with the close community and the majestic mountains. Since I came to WCC in 2022, I have spent many happy hours of my free time learning ice skating, downhill skiing, and mountain biking through opportunities the college and Lander have given me. As a current junior, I have had the pleasure of being part of this wonderful community for nearly three years watching it grow and flourish along with the countless friendships I have formed along the way. I plan to pursue a career in software  development after graduation, and I am excited to see where God takes me after graduation.
Q. What brought you to (and kept you at) WCC? 

The community of students is the beating heart of life at the college. The people you encounter aren’t merely trying to obtain riches and other things the world promises will provide fulfillment. They are truly striving to grow in mind, body, and spirit, seeking out what is true, good, and beautiful.

Q. What are some of the ways that WCC has challenged you to grow? 

As someone with a strong background in mathematics and science, the extensive reading and writing components of WCC’s curriculum have beckoned me to rise to the heights of academia. Though this climb has been a challenging one, it has been just as rewarding. 

Q. What has been your favorite class at WCC, and why? 

During the second semester of sophomore year, we studied the works of Richard Courant. Through his presentation of the ideas of quantity and numbers, I no longer saw mathematics simply as a tool to be used, but as a beautiful manifestation of the inherent order of God’s handiwork.

Q. What’s one thing you would tell high school students right now who are considering their college options?  

Our society creates the illusion that as young adults we need to start making money as soon as possible. However, when all is said and done, what you do to provide for yourself is far from the most important aspect of your life. It’s worth taking the extra time to form your mind and solidify the foundations of your spiritual life before you take on the world. 
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Recalling Our Founders

As seniors recover from the excitement and rigor of Orations Week and the rest of the student body settles into the Spring semester, Wyoming Catholic College experiences the typical March routine. Inexperienced underclassmen eagerly champion the sporadic bursts of warm days as harbingers of spring, only to be silenced by a few feet of snow the next day. Juniors are busily producing thesis proposals and finding faculty members to guide them through the upcoming year of research. Seniors are facing the bittersweet reality that their time in Lander is running out. They mourn the impending goodbyes and their departure from this tremendous community. Yet they also look forward with eagerness and determination to the vocations they will embrace after graduation.

In the midst of this regular “cycle of life” at WCC, a remarkable event enlivens the student community: the Founders’ Scholarship Competition. Hosted over two weekends in February, this event is a chance for prospective students to visit Lander and compete for a full-tuition scholarship. More importantly, it is an opportunity for both prospective and current students to reflect on the values and outstanding characters of our founders: Bishop David Ricken, Dr. Robert Carlson, and Fr. Robert Cook. These men, more than 20 years ago, formed and executed the outrageous idea of founding a Catholic liberal arts college in rural Wyoming, in a diocese with “more cows than people.” Inspired by their deep Catholic faith and their dedication to beauty, these men overcame significant adversity to found an institution that, on its face, appears “too good to be true.” Nevertheless, Wyoming Catholic College continues to exist and grow as the only college in the world where young people can read the Great Books, ride horses, climb crags, scale peaks, and worship together in the truth of the Catholic faith. WCC’s mission endures solely because its faculty and students embrace the radical values of the Founders. Each year, prospective students are called upon to demonstrate their own devotion to truth, goodness, and beauty—and one exceptional student is honored with the Founders’ Scholarship. This year, the competition went spectacularly, and it will certainly be difficult to choose a winner from such an enthusiastic and competent pool of competitors!

PEAK 2025!

Spots at our PEAK Summer Program are rapidly filling up, with only a couple spots left for the second session and a waitlist already started for ladies! Time is running out for you to join this epic summer adventure! If you’d like to spend two weeks of your summer reading the Great Books, rock climbing, horseback riding, learning to dance, rappelling, and backpacking, PEAK is for you. Sessions will run from June 1-15th and 16-30th. 

Counselor Travel!

Catherine Mershon, our Director of Admissions, will be travelling in Nebraska in early April. If you live in the area, please reach out to her! We always love meeting with prospective students from around the country.

Campus Spotlight!

To give you a taste of life at Wyoming Catholic College, we will showcase various events on campus that highlight the rich culture of WCC’s community. A great place to start is the Freshman Dance, which took place last weekend! Every year, each class is tasked with hosting a school-wide dance, with a communal dinner and a theme of their choosing. This year’s freshmen chose a medieval theme, and students showed up in their best peasant, friar, or crusader attire. After feasting together, students danced the night away—celebrating together in the joy and spiritedness of our tight-knit community.
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Newsletter Highlights:

  • Monthly Reflection: A Whole-Person Education for a Fractionalized World
  • Webinar Announcement – April 11th
  • PEAK Summer Program
  • Student Spotlight

A Whole-Person Education for a Fractionalized World

At this point in the spring semester at Wyoming Catholic College, students and faculty enjoy a particularly wonderful intellectual banquet. Wherever one turns in our cohort-based system, one finds students engaging with some of the most important works and topics of human history. Freshman are immersing themselves in the spectacular political and anthropological insights of Plato’s Republic. Sophomores are accompanying Dante on his awesome cosmic journey in the Divine Comedy. Juniors are carefully analyzing the conflict between ancient and modern political philosophy, encountering Hobbes’ Leviathan and contrasting it with the political theory of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas. Seniors are completing their sojourn with one of history’s greatest novels: Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. The atmosphere in Lander is rich with reflection and discovery. Students, through reading these profound texts, grapple with the major questions of human life, including questions of human love, the political order, the nature of the human soul, and man’s unending quest for the Divine.

These all-important topics, however, cannot be approached merely through scholarship or academic endeavor. They represent dynamics of the human spirit that cannot be shut away in esoteric realms of academia. Instead, they must burst forth into students’ daily lives, informing their concrete decisions, their interactions with others, and the visions they form of human happiness. To facilitate this whole-person formation, Wyoming Catholic College espouses a radical educational model, which will manifest itself in the coming days. Even while they engage in our rigorous classroom formation, students are preparing for their upcoming excursions during Outdoor Week. As part of the Outdoor Leadership Program, all students spend at least two weeks in the wilderness each academic year, building upon the formation they began during the Freshman 21-Day Expedition. WCC students will soon be rock climbing, mountain biking, and canyoneering in Utah, white-water rafting in Oregon, winter backpacking and horseback riding in Wyoming, and ministering to the needy in Colorado. Students will challenge themselves physically, mentally, and spiritually. They will be called upon to lead their peers and brave the challenges of nature, all while enjoying the beauty and peace of the wilderness. These experiences will wonderfully complement their classroom scholarship. Freshmen and Juniors, who are studying the intricacies of political theory, will experience the unique community dynamic that occurs when a group is separated from the technology and comfort that so often pushes us apart in today’s world. Sophomores, with the epic journey of the Commedia in the back of their minds, will embark on their own journeys, learning more about themselves and their Creator as the miles pass beneath their feet. Seniors, as they bond with their classmates and underclassmen, will embody the insights of Dostoevsky’s Alexei Karamazov, who repeatedly discovers the importance of genuine, concrete human love, over and above the superficial abstractions of “charity” so comfortable to our fallen nature.

These experiences during Outdoor Week demonstrate that WCC students are educated not as programmable brains, but as integral human persons, who must learn in diverse modes and environments.

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Join Us for Our Webinar!

If you’d like to hear more about WCC’s one-of-a-kind education, our upcoming virtual info session is a wonderful opportunity for you! Join us at 4:15 MDT on April 11th. This webinar is for high school students and their parents to learn about Wyoming Catholic College’s elite Liberal Arts curriculum, outdoor program, and rich community and liturgical life. Seniors, hear about what makes Wyoming Catholic so unique and why you should apply today! Sophomores and Juniors, learn about PEAK, our epic two week high school summer program, and get a special offer to attend this June!

Spots at PEAK 2025 Are Running Out!

WCC’s high school summer program is filling up! Join the ranks of rising juniors and seniors who are venturing to Wyoming this June. Participants at PEAK will experience our academic community by attending seminar classes with our faculty. They will also embark on a slew of outdoor adventures, including rock climbing, rappelling, horseback riding, and backpacking. Great memories and lasting friendships are sure to be formed during these intense two weeks within the WCC community. Sign up before all spots are taken!

Student Spotlight!

Bridget Pokorny (’27)

Bio:  I grew up in Colorado Springs, CO on the doorstep of the Rocky Mountains where I have always enjoyed outdoor sports, including rock climbing, horseback riding, and climbing mountains. I also enjoy painting and making music. I am coming to the end of my Sophomore year at WCC and have been studying Dante’s Divine Comedy, Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, and designing a quadrille for Horsemanship Class.

What brought you to (and kept you at) WCC?

I came to Wyoming Catholic College seeking life in the mountains and a liberal education from a Catholic perspective, and I have found what I sought. Between the 21-day Backpacking Trip, outdoor weeks, and living in beautiful Wyoming, I have been immersed in invigorating and breathtaking activities through which I’ve become fully alive and awake to the world. In the classroom, I am delighted to re-encounter many texts through a Catholic lens that I have previously encountered through a secular one, while also reading many Church Fathers and intellectual giants of Catholicism for the first time

What are some of the ways that WCC has challenged you to grow?

WCC has forced me to humble myself, encountering new things like a little child. Through the community, I am continually called to deeper mercy and charity towards my peers, as well as practicing intellectual and spiritual humility through my hours in the classroom, in the saddle, and on the rivers and rocks

What has been your favorite class at WCC, and why?

My favorite part of the WCC curriculum is the Humanities track. I adore Dante and have loved journeying through the Inferno and now the Purgatorio, finding myself continually spellbound by his poetry. 

What’s one thing you would tell high school students right now who are considering their college options? 

If you are looking at the mountain of college applications, trying to sort through countless options, ask yourself one question: Are you living in such a way that you would be okay with dying tomorrow? Wyoming Catholic College will give you the opportunity to weed out the frivolous, the distracting, and the worthless and to start living a life you would be satisfied dying with. 
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Wyoming Catholic College admits students of any race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded to or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national and ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, hiring and employment practices, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.