Admission to the College of Letters and Science Honors Program
The University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters and Science Honors Program serves approximately 1,600 students by granting three undergraduate degrees:
Honors in the Liberal Arts (HLA),
Honors in the Major (HM), and
Comprehensive Honors (for completion of both HLA and HM). Incoming first-year students, continuing students, and transfer students in the University of Wisconsin-Madison's College of Letters and Science may be eligible to apply for admission to the L&S Honors Program. For more information, please read the information below and follow the appropriate links.
If you are currently a high school student or an incoming first-year student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison interested in more information about the L&S Honors Program's admission process please click the above link or the link in the menu bar titled "For First-Year Students" for more information.
If you are a continuing student in the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science or are a transfer student to the university and are interested in the L&S Honors Program's Honors in the Liberal Arts degree, please click the above link or the link in the menu bar titled "For Continuing and Transfer Students" for more information about applying to the program.
If you are a continuing or transfer student at the UW-Madison who has declared a major in the College of Letters and Science and would like to pursue honors in that major please click the above link or the link in the menu bar titled "Admission to Honors in the Major" for more information.
For answers to a number of frequently asked questions regarding the L&S Honors Program and its admissions process, please click the above link or the link in the menu bar titled "Admissions FAQs."