Saint Micheal's College

SMCAdmissions
Fri, 01 Jul 2011 16:36:04 +0000

Hey there Number88–

We’re fairly well known within the New England & New York/New Jersey areas (more so in New England), but still, there are so many colleges in the northeast that there are always people who have never heard of us!

The [url=http://www.smcvt.edu/academics/politicalscience/]political science department /url is quite strong with plenty of internship opportunities. As a matter of fact, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick Leahy, is a graduate of Saint Michael’s College and provides internships in his office for our students. Also, the class sizes are quite small and you will always be taught by a professor, never a teacher’s aid or graduate student.

Our Honors Program is one that students are invited to join. Once a student has applied to Saint Michael’s, the honors committee reviews each applicant’s transcript. They are looking for both the applicant’s performance as well as the level of class taken by the student (i.e. honors/AP/IB courses).

This past application cycle, students who had a 3.7 (weighted & on a 4.0 scale) and strong classes were invited into the honors program. Students must maintain a minimum of a 3.5 to remain in the program. If a student is not invited to the program, yet maintains a 3.5 or higher in their first semester, those students will be invited into the program.

Saint Michael’s College also was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa chapter (the nation’s oldest honor’s society). Fewer than 10% of colleges and universities in the US have been given this distinction. Phi Beta Kappa reviews a college/university’s curriculum, performance of the student-body and the quality of the faculty (10% of which are required to be Phi Beta Kappa members themselves).

I hope this answers all of your questions. If you have additional questions, please let me know!

Also DJQ1717- Welcome to St. Mike’s, thank you for weighing in!

-Jeremy Brown
Assistant Director of Admission
802-654-2913
jbrown7@smcvt.edu