Sancta Crux Scholars

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The Academy of the Holy Cross invites incoming freshmen with exceptional academic achievement and potential to become Sancta Crux Scholars. During this four-year program, Holy Cross will foster the intellectual growth of these extraordinary young women and help them embrace and develop their gifts. Scholars must take four honors classes each semester and maintain a 3.5 weighted grade point average throughout the program.

Current freshmen and Rising sophomores:

Second-semester freshmen at Holy Cross and rising sophomores who have maintained a 3.5 weighted average and enrolled in four honor-equivalent classes each semester are also eligible for admittance to the Sancta Crux Scholars program (without the scholarship).

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Sisters of the Holy Cross

Founded in Le Mans, France in 1841, the Sisters of the Holy Cross form a part of the religious family of priests, brothers, and sisters brought together by Blessed Basil Moreau. Believing that the proclamation of the Gospel is intrinsic to Catholic education, and that knowledge empowers faith, Father Moreau established schools in France at all levels, for students of any social or economic background. This heritage of equality would form the basic orientation to education that the Sisters of the Holy Cross brought with them to the United States in 1843. Within a few years of arriving in this country, the Sisters established themselves as a leading teaching order and greatly increased educational opportunities for women.

Since the time of their founding, the formal designation used by the Sisters of the Holy Cross to mark their religious order has been CSC, an abbreviation for the Latin Congregatio Sanctae Crucis, or Congregation of the Holy Cross. The Sancta Crux Scholars at The Academy of the Holy Cross take their name to honor this tradition and the long history of education that is at the heart of the mission of the Sisters of the Holy Cross.

Sancta Crux Scholarship

$5,000 a year for 4 years of high school

The Academy of the Holy Cross invites incoming freshmen with exceptional academic achievement and potential to become Sancta Crux Scholars. During this four-year program, Holy Cross will foster the intellectual growth of these extraordinary young women and help embrace and develop their gifts. Scholars must take four honors-equivalent classes each semester and maintain a 3.5 weighted grade point average throughout the program.

Criteria for Selection for Incoming Freshmen:

9th grade applicants must indicate their intent to be considered for the Sancta Crux scholarship on the admission application

In addition to your Applicants will be considered for the scholarship based on the following criteria:

Academic performance in 7^th and 8^th grade
In light of the HSPT-optional initiative for the Class of 2027, all Sancta Crux scholarship applicants will be required to submit an additional component. More details will be sent the first week of January 2023 to those who have applied for the Sancta Crux scholarship.
Pursuit of Scholarship Submission; due Monday, January 9, 2023

2023-2024 Submission Guidelines

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