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To apply for admission to WCC, you’ll need to submit a completed application. Your application will be considered complete once we have received your personal statement, essay, test scores, letters of reference, and transcripts. After we have received these components, you will be invited for an interview with the faculty to be considered for admission.
Additionally, we require each applicant to submit a medical questionnaire to help us prepare for our 21-day expedition. Lastly, each applicant will need to turn in a final completed high school transcript upon finishing their senior year of high school. After a student has been admitted, they may apply for financial aid and learn about available merit scholarships.
Please see below more information about each application component.
Application Requirements
Upon entering your contact information, you will be directed to the Admissions Application. Additionally, you will receive a link to your application via email, allowing you to exit and re-enter the application as needed. Please make sure you fill out all parts of the application to the best of your abilities. Applications for the 2025-2026 school year are currently being reviewed. Please do not hesitate to email admissions@wyomingcatholic.edu with any questions that arise.
Choose one of the following essay topics. In addition to showing thoughtfulness and creativity, applicants should give great care to completing, proofreading, and presenting their essay. The essay must be the applicant’s own work, with minimal advice and suggestions from others. The Admissions Office may request additional writing samples or may seek to evaluate your writing ability in other ways. Please type and double-space the essay using a 12-point font and include the Topic Number you respond to.
Topic 1 (2-3 pages): Many thinkers over the centuries have advocated for living in accord with nature. Examples include, in their different ways, the ancient Stoics, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. But John Stuart Mill voices the sentiments of many when he objects that living according to nature is to live like an animal, which is the worst thing we could do. Instead, we must tame our instincts and live in a civilized way, according to Mill. Write an essay answering the following question: Ought we to live in accord with nature? If so, in what sense? Why or why not? Are there good and bad ways of taking nature as one’s guide to life?
Topic 2 (2-3 pages): What is a hero? Is heroism something different from being a good person or a role model? Drawing on the life, deeds, or gestures of a hero from literature, history, or your own experience–some figure that especially inspires, moves, or bothers you–define heroism and reflect on what the hero has to teach or show us.
Topic 3 (2-3 pages):
“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.”― Rainer Maria Rilke, First Duino Elegy
Write about a work of art (a painting, a sculpture, a work of architecture, a poem or work of fiction, or a musical composition) that amazed you almost beyond your endurance. How would you compare and contrast this experience of art to an overwhelming experience of nature? Explain your reactions in terms of what the lines from Rilke’s poem suggest.
Topic 4 (2-3 pages): Some mathematical theories and systems were conceived as pure theory before mathematicians realized they had real-world applications (eg, non-Euclidean geometry). Does this mean that mathematics is invented? That is, is math real? If so, where does it exist?
The essay can be submitted in pdf form to admissions@wyomingcatholic.edu.
In one page or less (single spaced, in 12 point font), please describe why you believe you would thrive at Wyoming Catholic College, and why you are attracted to its model of academic inquiry.
You may answer these questions however you wish, using your personal experience of education, the WCC Philosophical Vision Statement, the Academic Catalog, and/or the Outdoor Program.
The personal statement can be submitted in pdf form to admissions@wyomingcatholic.edu.
Official high school and college transcripts are issued by the school, with a seal and signature.
For applicants registered with an established homeschool curriculum, an official transcript from the curriculum provider is adequate.
Other homeschooled applicants are to use this transcript form.
Wyoming Catholic College requires that all students submit standardized test scores as part of their application. The College prefers the Classic Learning Test (CLT), as this exam is the most accurate assessment of a student’s aptitude for WCC’s classical curriculum. For more information, visit www.cltexam.com
The SAT and ACT are also accepted. Standardized test score reports must be sent from the testing companies directly to the Admissions Office. Please visit www.collegeboard.com or www.act.org to request scores. Our code numbers are 4748 for the SAT and 5001 for the ACT.
Although there isn’t a minimum score requirement for the CLT, SAT, or ACT, these scores are an important part of the admissions evaluation.
Wyoming Catholic requires students to embark on breathtaking yet challenging trips in the outdoors, therefore it is necessary for the outdoor program to know of any medical history and/or conditions that may involve extra preparation. Please fill out the Supplemental Medical Questionnaire after submitting your application for admission
