Below is the application for the Honors Scholars Scholarship. Please answer each question and upload the required essay at the end. For both the short answer questions and essay, refrain from using any sort of generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini). The best responses to the prompts will be honest and personal, exploring the ideas in your own voice.
Once you click submit, you are unable to make any changes. The Honors Scholars Scholarship Committee will meet and decide whom they would like to interview. Interviews take place in January, and decisions will be released sometime in late February.
What activities have you been involved in in high school (this can be job, service, extracurricular, clubs, sports, etc.)? Please indicate if you held leadership positions in any of your activities. Responses are limited to 500 words.
Briefly describe any educational plans that you have beyond earning your bachelor’s degree.
Tell us a little bit about your most unusual friend.
Tell us about the most fun class you took in high school.
What is the best thing you have read in the last 12 months (book, article, poem, etc.)?
In response to the prompt below, please upload a 500-word double-spaced essay (in .pdf format) using your first and last name as the file name:
Curiosity, imagination, and breadth of interests are defining characteristics of successful students in the UT Tyler Honors College. We encourage originality and exploration of the human experience, especially through your unique journey and intellectual curiosity. Given this background, consider and then write an essay of no more than 500 words in response to the following:
The Intergalactic Council has decided to consider asking the people of Earth to become members of its peaceful and life-affirming alliance. We have 24 hours to make the argument for the value of humanity to the emissary the IC has dispatched. You have been selected to make the argument by showing the alien emissary around the human experience. Write an essay of not more than 500 words in which you describe how you go about this important mission. Make sure to use your own experience along with whatever artistic, cultural, or other human resources you think demonstrate the best of humanity and its as yet untapped possibilities or potential. Good luck!
Or, type or copy-and-paste your document here:
