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The Honors College

Updated Fall 2020

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Required talking points

  • HCOL Curriculum

    • ​The Honors College provides a small college experience with access to a great research university; students from all majors are eligible for HCOL.

    • The curriculum begins with small interdisciplinary seminars in the first two years, and it leads to a student’s individually-designed research project with a faculty mentor in the junior and senior years.

  • The Honors College is a is a Residential Learning College

    • ​As a residential learning college, the Honors College brings together outstanding students from all UVM’s majors to connect their academic work with their lives outside the classroom.

  • The Honors College core values are academic excellence and academic wellness.

    • Academic excellence: engaging, rigorous coursework combined with the opportunity to build expertise in a scholarly field​ -- and then be on the cutting edge of research and innovation within that field

    • Academic wellness: what kind of fulfilling life do students identify for themselves that enables them to succeed and reach their goals during - and after - their undergraduate career

  • HCOL Admissions

    • ​There are two ways into the UVM Honors College: Invitation through the first-year admission process and a sophomore admission process for current UVM students.

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Additional optional talking points

  • HCOL Admissions

    • HCOL typically accepts the top 10% of an incoming class (bringing in about 225 students). They look holistically, but are concerned with GPA and test scores too. More questions about admission to HCOL can be directed to an Admissions Counselor.

  • Size of HCOL

    • About 1,000 students total across all class years

  • HCOL & Study Abroad

    • Our students go all over the world to study abroad

    • About 40% of HCOL students will spend either a semester or summer overseas studying.

    • Typically students will go abroad in either the sophomore spring or sometime junior year, and we can be flexible with requirements (especially in junior year) in order to help ensure students can get abroad.

  • 92% first-year retention

  • ~90% live in U-Heights North

  • HCOL students receive an additional advisor specific to HCOL

  • Example HCOL seminars:

    • The Katrina Disaster​

    • Animal Products & Human Nutrition

    • Pandemics, Culture, and Society

  • HCOL courses cover other university requirements

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AdvoCat Stories

  • HCOL Professors

    • One of my favorite professors so far at UVM has been my Visualizing India's History professor. She right off the bat felt rather motherly and that only was reaffirmed as the semester went on. It was not an easy course, but one thing kept me going, a light at the end of a tunnel per say, we were promised a dinner over homemade Indian food at her house during final presentations. We got to meet her son and her dog and the whole atmosphere made these final presentations so much less daunting. In addition, we were able to look at artifacts behind the scenes at the Fleming museum and then do a project to make our own display at the museum.  -Nina Chandler

  • Community in HCOL

    • I sat down in Central Dining hall with a guy I had met in an HCOL plenary lecture, and, after talking for a bit, realized we had met prior at a Model UN conference at Brown University 3 years prior, and that he likes playing funk music like I do, and he plays drums to my bass! I'd say it demonstrates how, through tight community in the honors college, a Data Science major and an Anthropology major can not only become friends, but discover that they are perfect musical compliments to each other. -Max Perrotto

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