St. Andrews seeks to provide special challenges and enhanced opportunities to students of proven academic achievement through its General Honors Program.  The mission of this unique academic opportunity is to foster the personal, intellectual and ethical development of students who excel academically.  Membership in the General Honors Program is gained by invitation based on a student’s SAT score, high school GPA and personal interview.    To be accepted into the General Honors Program and receive a supplemental scholarship students must have a SAT score of 1200 or higher, an ACT score of 26 or higher, and a minimum high school GPA of 3.5. Honors scholarships are supplemental to other scholarships.

Students participating in the General Honors Program at St. Andrews are affectionately known on campus as “Honorifics”.  Honorifics are athletes, scholars, scientists, dreamers, inventors, rebels, politically aware and unaware, opinionated, active, socially integrated and come from across the USA, Canada and beyond!  Honorifics are a tight-knight group of students who share both similar and differing interests and play active roles in each other’s personal and intellectual growth.

Travel is one of the four pillars of the General Honors motto and is encouraged and embraced within the Honors community. Students who participate in the General Honors program are encouraged to participate in the available study abroad programs at St. Andrews. In addition to these programs, General Honors students are offered a variety of travel opportunities specific to the program that offer enriching experiences that supplement the General Honors curriculum.

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The General Honors Program at St. Andrews invites its students to engage in the world in which they live by actively participating in their college experience.  The Honors curriculum provides a rich and colorful menagerie of ideas to expand your mind and consider possibilities you otherwise may have never recognized.In an Honors class you quickly become comfortable with your classmates, creating a dynamic, co-operative learning environment that breeds a deeper and more thoughtful exploration of ideas.