Wyoming Catholic College Admissions Newsletter

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!

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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