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Katherine Lindsay writes: My alma mater, Lawrence University, will stop requiring ACT/SAT scores as part of the undergraduate admission process in 2006. This is, in part, a reaction to the “overemphasis of testing” by the Bush administration.

Several other liberal arts colleges are following suit. I wonder how moves by small liberal arts colleges like this will affect schools like the U of MN who are choosing to implement stricter standards to become “world experts in X”. I wonder which recruitment strategy is better in the long term?

K

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Article link: Colleges: an endangered species?

Andrew Delbanco ponders in the New York Review of Books (March 10, 2005) what a college education means today: “for the relatively few students who still attend a traditional liberal arts college—whether part of, or independent from, a university—what do they get when they get there?“

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