Criteria for Election
Students are elected during their senior year on the basis of academic distinction in the liberal arts and sciences. In examining the academic records of candidates, the chapter considers the breadth of their engagement with the liberal arts and their fulfillment of the academic purposes and goals of the College. Breadth in the liberal arts normally involves one course in at least five of the six following categories:
- arts;
- math/computer science;
- sciences;
- social sciences;
- languages;
- humanities.
In at least three of those categories, the student will have taken a course at the 200-level or above. The Hamilton chapter, comprised of faculty and administrator members of Phi Beta Kappa, normally selects about 10 percent of the senior class for membership.
