The Honors Selection Committee carefully reviews each application holistically based on the criteria below:

• Applicant clearly describes their academic and professional goals and aspirations
• Applicant clearly demonstrates that they coincide with the mission and goals of the Honors Program (i.e. engaging with honors community, HIPs, reflective ePortfolios, honors seminars, enrichment experiences, plans to transfer to four-year institution)
• Excellent description of their interests in the Honors program and the benefits they will gain from participating
• Student demonstrates a curious intellect, passion for learning, and interest in engaging with the honors curriculum and the honors community of diverse students, staff, and faculty from various fields of study
• Student demonstrates academic potential and motivation to engage in honors seminars that will challenge the student with critical reading, reflection experiences, and integrative discussions
• Student has strengths, perspectives, intersectional identities, and experiences that contribute to an enriching learning environment. This can be demonstrated by leadership experiences, community engagement and service, creative pursuits, and research

There is no honors admission GPA requirement, but students must keep in mind that in order to graduate with an AA/AS degree with honors designation, students must graduate with at least a 3.3 GPA. To articulate to University of Utah’s Honors College when transferring, students are required to have at least a 3.5 GPA.

Applicants who submitted their Honors Program application before or on the application deadline date will be notified 2-3 weeks following the admission deadline date. Applicants submitting after the application deadline date will be notified of their honors admission’s decision on a rolling basis. We will try to send out notification of admission decisions as soon as we can.

The SLCC Honors Program is committed to finding financial support for all of its students. For this program to be inclusive, we are committed to eliminating tuition financial barriers that honors students may experience. Therefore in order to open as many options for financial support, students should also complete FAFSA and Award Springs in addition to their Honors application.

Students can expect an engaging and intellectually rigorous class taught by outstanding faculty. Class cohorts are small enough for students to get to know one another and learn from each other through in-depth class discussions, research, projects, HIPs, enrichment experiences, and other activities designed for a challenging academic experience.

Unfortunately, high school concurrent enrollment students are ineligible to apply for the Honors Program. You may have heard about this program while you are a student in high school and that is because we try to outreach the program to high school students, so that you are aware of this opportunity for your future academic plans. If you are graduating from high school and planning to attend SLCC, we encourage you to apply for the Honors Program.

Students will not be able to use AP, IB, or Concurrent Enrollment credit or courses to opt out of any Honors requirements. Students with AP, IB, or Concurrent Enrollment can still be able to use these credits for general education requirements, but not for honor requirements. All Honors students must successfully pass all Honors Courses (9 Credits): 3 in Social Sciences (SS), 3 in Humanities (HU), and 3 in Composition (EN). If you have already taken a course that fulfills Social Sciences (SS), Humanities (HU), or Composition (EN), these courses will not fulfill the honors requirements unless they are specified as an Honors course.

All Honors students must successfully pass all Honors Courses (9 Credits): 3 in Social Sciences (SS), 3 in Humanities (HU), and 3 in Composition (EN). If you have already taken a course that fulfills Social Sciences (SS), Humanities (HU), or Composition (EN), these courses will not fulfill the honors requirements unless they are specified as an honors course. You will have to take the honors-specified courses in order to be eligible to graduate with the Honors Program recognition and designation on your degree. This might mean that you will have to take additional semesters at SLCC.

There is no requirement to graduate within a certain amount of semesters or time frame, but we do encourage students to be full-time while in the Honors Program in order to complete all Honors requirements within 6 semesters (or two academic years), which includes summer semesters. We encourage this because if students are receiving honors tuition waivers or scholarships, the max number of semesters eligible to receive that funding support is up to 6 semesters (or two academic years).

SLCC currently has an articulation agreement with the University of Utah Honors College which means that all 9 honors credits earned at SLCC will transfer and fulfill 9 credits required for University of Utah Honors requirements: 3 credits of Honors electives, 3 credits of Honors Writing (WR), and 3 credits of the Honors Intellectual Traditions (IT) requirement. In order for students to transfer into the University of Utah Honors College, SLCC students still must fulfill the transfer criteria.

We are currently working on articulation agreements with other four-year institutions. If you are considering transferring to a different honors program at another institution, please consult with that institution’s honors administrators to see if SLCC honors credits will transfer.