Nov 26, 2025, 10:15 AM
Summer Academy Provides High School Students with a Taste of the St. John’s Experience
Three week-long sessions of the Great Books program in Annapolis and Santa Fe balance academic rigor with college tradition and community.
News & Features
Nov 20, 2025, 1:15 PM
Richard D. Weigle Essay Prize Recipient Lia McGrath (SF25) Weighs in on Set Theory, Visualization, and Knots
McGrath’s post-baccalaureate work at Smith College is the latest stage in her long-term interest in math, which began during high school and deepened throughout her four years at St. John’s.
Oct 24, 2025, 11:45 AM
Novelist Salvatore Scibona (SF97) Weighs in on Reading Woolf, Writing Fiction, and the Authority of Imagination
"Really, there’s no education in skimming at St. John’s. There’s something like the opposite of that."
Oct 13, 2025, 5:00 PM
How a Classic Liberal Arts Education Set Aviral Chawla (SF22) Up for Success in a Cutting-Edge STEM Field
Aviral Chawla (SF22), who is a PhD student in complexity science at the University of Vermont’s Complex Systems Institute, credits his undergraduate education for not only preparing him for rigorous graduate work but for helping him thrive in an interdisciplinary field.
Oct 1, 2025, 5:00 PM
St. John's Discussion-Based Application Increasingly Embraced by Applicants—and Increasingly Valuable in the Age of AI
Now entering its third year of use, the DBA serves as an alternative to the traditional written college essay by providing prospective students with the opportunity to showcase their conversation skills.