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Apply to Honors

To complete your Honors College Application, you must submit the following:

1. The application form
2. Your official transcript (high school or college, as appropriate)
   
3. Two recommendation letters from current or former teachers or professors with firsthand knowledge of your current academic performance and your academic motivation
   
4. Your 500-1000 word essay describing an incident, person, or book which has had an important influence on your life
5. Résumé (or list of organizational and leadership activities)

This may be sent by mail to the address below, by email (also below), or may be dropped by our office in building AB4 room 201.

For additional information concerning the application process, please contact the Honors office at (936) 294-1477 or honors@shsu.edu.

 

Honors College
Sam Houston State University
Box 2479
Huntsville, TX 77341-2479
(936) 294-1477
honors@shsu.edu