The first step to being considered for the Renaissance Scholar honor is to submit the details of your academic program to the Renaissance Scholar Faculty Review Panel. You may do this by completing the Academic Program Certification Form found on the Renaissance Scholar website. Once you have requested certification of your academic program, the faculty panel will review the two disciplines you are studying. Certification will be based on the extent to which the two fields of study are widely separate and distinct, and require you as a student to stretch intellectually. You may seek this certification of breadth as early as your sophomore year or as late as the first semester of your senior year.
Certification is only the first step.
Once you apply for certification on the web, you will receive a confirmation of receipt of your application by email within a few days. Certification decisions are made within one month after receipt of the application. However, for certain combinations of major and minor, applicants may be contacted for additional information. If you graduate in the summer or fall, you may apply for the Renaissance Scholar prizes to be awarded in the Spring of the following year. However, you will still need to keep apprised, read, and comply with all of the deadline requirments and updates that are published on the Renaissance Scholar's website.