• Please note that we are unable to provide an admissions decision for the Templeton Honors College until you have been formally accepted to Eastern University.
• If you have not completed your application yet, please do so at eastern.edu/apply.

• We will contact the references submitted on your application. We encourage you to let them know that we will be reaching out.

• Submit an essay of at least 1,000 words that demonstrates your thinking and writing skills. This should be an academic essay that you previously submitted for credit. Essays that engage with texts—a poem, work of literature, passage of Scripture, or philosophical argument—are especially useful in helping us see how you would flourish in Templeton’s academic program. 
• Please send your writing sample to (Templeton@eastern.edu) via Google Docs, Word, Pages, or PDF Format.

• In approximately 300 words, please describe how one book (besides the Bible) has significantly shaped the way you think, act, feel, or worship. This is an opportunity for the admissions committee to get to know you. 
• Please send your book recommendation to (Templeton@eastern.edu) via Docs, Word, Pages, or PDF Format.

In approximately 600 words, please respond to one of the following prompts. This is an opportunity for the admissions committee to get to know how you think. Please send your response to (Templeton@eastern.edu) in Docs, Word, Pages, or PDF Format.

• “The complete sort of friendship is that between people who are good and are alike in virtue, since they wish for good things for one another in the same way insofar as they are good, and they are good in and of themselves.”
  -Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics (340 B.C.)
• “One ought to provide a tutor who is wise and prudent more in morals than in lofty learning, despite the fact that in ancient times, the children of princes were taught by philosophers. … I believe that it would be better to have a very discrete and wise tutor, who had good morals and loved God, rather than the most excellent and subtle philosopher. Yet it would be much more praiseworthy to find a perfect one who was a notable scholar, as well … because the good morals that the child sees in his tutor, and the wise words and countenance he experiences, provide both an education and a mirror for him.” 
  -Christine de Pizan, Book of the Body Politic (1407)
• "The general principles of any study you may learn by books at home; but the detail, the colour, the tone, the air, the life which makes it live in us, you must catch all those from those in whom it lives already." 
  -John Henry Newman, The Rise and Progress of Universities (1856)
• “Her horizon is extended. Her sympathies are broadened and deepened and multiplied. She is in closer touch with nature. Not a bud that opens, not a dew drop, not a ray of light, not a cloudburst or a thunderbolt, but adds to the expansiveness and zest of her soul. And if the sun of an absorbing passion be gone down, still 'tis night that brings the stars. She has remaining the mellow, less obtrusive, but none the less enchanting and inspiring light of friendship, and into its charmed circle she may gather the best the world has known. She can commune with Socrates about the daimon he knew and to which she too can bear witness; she can revel in the majesty of Dante, the sweetness of Virgil, the simplicity of Homer, and strength of Milton. She can listen to the pulsing heart throbs of passionate Sappho's encaged soul, as she beats her bruised wings against her prison bars and struggles to flutter out into Heaven's aether, and the fires of her own soul cry back as she listens. ‘Yes; Sappho, I know it all; I know it all.’ Here, at last, can be communion without suspicion; friendship without misunderstanding; love without jealousy.” 
  -Anna Julia Cooper, “The Higher Education of Women” (1890)
• “Whenever in reflective and receptive contemplation we touch, even remotely, the core of all things, the hidden, ultimate reason of the living universe, the divine foundation of all that is, the purest form of all archetypes (and the act of perception, immersed in contemplation, is the most intensive form of grasping and owning), whenever and wherever we thus behold the very essence of reality—there is an activity that is meaningful in itself taking place.” 
• -Josef Pieper, Only the Lover Sings (1974)

After submitting all other materials, students are required to attend an interview as the last step in their application process

• Once you have reached this step, a Templeton representative will reach out to schedule an interview with you, either on campus or via Zoom.