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Liberal arts recruitment strategy: drop ACT/SAT requirements
2/21/2005
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 [...]
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