Type: Independent, Co-Educational
Location: Lynchburg, Virginia
Enrollment: 2,500
Average GPA: 3.0
SAT Middle 50 Percent: 1030 (CR/M)
ACT Middle 50 Percent: 18-22
Top 10 Percent of High School Class: 12%
Top Quarter of High School Class: 35%
Student to Faculty Ratio: 12:1
Special Offerings/Programs:
For top performing students, Lynchburg College offers the Westover Honors Program. Participants in this program have the opportunity to attend special colloquia that tackle local, national, and global issues with an interdisciplinary approach and are granted special status in class scheduling. Westover students also complete an honors thesis during their senior year. Requirements for enrollment in this program include a high school GPA of greater than 3.5 and a minimum SAT score (critical reading and math only) of 1200.
For those students interested in the natural sciences, Lynchburg College is also associated with the Claytor Nature Study Center, a 470 acre outdoor classroom dedicated to the study of the environment.
And lastly, Lynchburg offers a Symposium Readings Program that encourages critical reading of the classics in various disciplines. One of the products of this program is Agora, an academic journal that encourages undergraduates to write papers on the Great Books. At Lynchburg, students do not have to wait until graduate school to get published!
Student Life:
Incoming freshman may be interested to learn that at Lynchburg, first year students are housed together and given special attention in Lynchburg’s First Year Explorations program, which seeks to assist students with the transition from high school to college.
Lynchburg also offers an outdoor leadership and adventure program called New Horizons as well as plenty of opportunities to serve the community.
(Incidentally, I went to Lynchburg College to attend the 1996 Governor’s School for Science, Math, and Technology, and I thought it was a very nice campus.)
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