Required credentials for admission
Application for admission, application fee
Please complete the Common Application and the Supplement to the Common Application and return it to the Office of Admission with the required $55 fee. Your check should be made payable to Wheaton College. If the application fee is a financial hardship, you may request a fee waiver from your college advisor. Students who complete and submit an electronic Common Application at the Common Application's web site by January 15, 2008, will have the $55 application fee waived. Remember to indicate the decision plan for which you are applying on the application and on all other forms. Please type or print clearly. Be sure to sign and date your application.
Note: Fill in the co-curricular and employment sections of the application. Even if you plan to submit a personal resume, you must also complete this portion of the application.
Please remember to write or type your name and date of birth on every credential submitted as part of your application.
Required academic writing sample
In addition to the Personal Statement, you must submit a graded writing sample as part of the application. Papers should be analytical or research-based samples from either an English, social studies, humanities, or natural science class and not examples of creative writing. Papers must have been written (in the English language) for a class within the past year, be no more than five pages in length, and include a class instructor's notations and the grade received. Because writing samples will not be returned, legible photocopies are acceptable.
Secondary School Report, academic transcripts and Midyear Report
After completing the candidate's section, take the Secondary School Report form to a college advisor in your high school who will complete and return the form to the Office of Admission. An official copy of your high school transcript must accompany the Secondary School Report. If you have taken any college courses for credit, you also must submit official college transcript(s).
For freshman applicants, the transcript should include grades from at least the first marking period of the current academic year. It is expected that your school will forward an official mid-year transcript, including first semester (or trimester) grades, as soon as it is available. A Midyear Report form is included in the application packet for your convenience.
Transfer applicants should submit final high school transcripts, as well as official transcripts from all colleges attended.
Teacher Evaluations
Please fill in the top section of each form and ask two of your instructors to complete and return them directly to the Office of Admission by the appropriate application deadline date. Freshman candidates must have one form submitted by a humanities or social sciences instructor and the other from an instructor in another academic subject (both must be from 11th or 12th grade). Transfer candidates must have at least one evaluation submitted by a faculty member in one of the humanities or social sciences.
Dean's report
(Transfer candidates only)
All transfer applicants must have a Dean's Report form submitted on their behalf by an official at their current or most recent college or university. This form is due by April 1 (by November 1 for mid-year admission).
Mid-term evaluation
(Transfer candidates only)
Please obtain up-to-date assessments of your grades in progress from all the instructors in courses you are currently taking. This form should be submitted by April 1 (November 1 for mid-year admission).
Certification of finances
(non-U.S. citizens only)
All applicants who are not citizens or permanent residents of the United States must submit a Certification of Finances form, or bank statement indicating sufficient resources to support their educational expenses.
TOEFL: Test of English as a Foreign Language
(non-native English speakers only)
Applicants for whom English is not their first language must submit scores earned on the TOEFL or ELPT, administered by the Educational Testing Service. The ETS code for sending your scores to Wheaton is 3963.