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.
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 two pages , please describe why you believe you would thrive at Wyoming Catholic College and why you are attracted to its model of academic inquiry.
Please type and double-space the essay using a 12-point font.
You may answer these questions however you wish, using your personal experience of education, but we especially encourage you to use 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 and bear 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.
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.
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.
Applications are received and evaluated beginning September 1st of the year prior to the year of intended enrollment. Wyoming Catholic College employs a modified rolling admissions policy. The Admissions Committee meets regularly to consider and render decisions on all applications that have been completed since the previous meeting, and qualified applicants will be accepted in the order in which their applications were received and completed. This being so, the sooner an application is submitted, the better are the chances of enrollment. The applicant will be notified immediately upon acceptance by the Admissions Committee.
After the applicant is accepted into the College, he or she reserves a place in the freshman class by signing and submitting a Commitment of Attendance accompanied by a $500 nonrefundable deposit, which is credited against tuition.
Since we have a limited number of places for students, there are likely to be accepted applicants who desire to attend after available spaces have been offered to others. Such applicants will be placed on a waiting list, with two privileges: if any space should happen to open up, the first applicant on the waiting list will be contacted and offered the open place; moreover, a waitlisted applicant has first choice of a place in the following year’s student body, without having to apply a second time. (Two things that would need to be resubmitted are the Physical Examination Form, which must be dated one year or less from the start of the Freshman Fall Expedition, and the Application for Financial Aid.)
Since learning takes place not only in the classroom but in many places on and off campus (including lessons learned through community life), Wyoming Catholic College students are required to live in appointed residence halls. All residence halls are single-sex and no intervisitation is allowed. The College employs a full-time Dean of Students as well as a prefect system.
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.
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.
