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So, You Want to Go to Law School?

Top Tier Admissions

The best major and minor for law school are those that you can excel in and that facilitate your work carving out strong faculty support and mentorship. Take writing-intensive courses and consider joining the school newspaper, literary magazine, or debate team to hone your writing abilities.

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The Claremont Colleges: Harvey Mudd College

Ivy Central

Standardized Test Scores: Harvey Mudd College is test optional. Many more students apply for Regular Decision than Early Decision. Application Components Complete the Common Application. High School Transcript: The high school transcript should include the mid-term grades from the senior year.

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U.S. News Releases Law and Medical School Rankings After Delays, Controversy

BestColleges

But following an " unprecedented number of inquiries " from university leaders during the embargo period, the magazine announced it would delay releasing final rankings by one week. News, refusing to cooperate with the magazine's data collection. Meanwhile, it removed the preliminary rankings from its website. Nonetheless, U.S.

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U.S. News Rankings Delayed Amid Controversy

BestColleges

The magazine revamped its methodology after several top schools boycotted the rankings last year. Preliminary rankings showed some minor changes among the top schools. There's no apparent timetable for the revised rankings, although the magazine's rankings of other graduate programs are public. After some delay, U.S.

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U.S. News Adjusts Rankings Methodology, Emphasizes Diversity

BestColleges

The magazine will add measures related to diversity in place of factors such as class rank and alumni giving. In the process, the magazine is ditching some of the rankings criteria universities have found easy to manipulate. It's not clear how the magazine will reflect such "success" or how much weight it will carry.

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Summer Strategy Ideas for Kenyon College

The Koppelman Group

Kenyon offers more than 50 majors, minors, and concentrations , but no matter what you study at Kenyon you will be doing a lot of writing. “We If you’re into the arts or literature, that probably won’t be too difficult — you can find an internship with a literary magazine, a summer job at a gallery, or work to get your art out into the world.

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Book Review: The Black Family’s Guide to College Admissions

Educated Quest

Fields and Herndon-Brown acknowledge that the admissions process favors families that focus on advanced courses, high scores on standardized tests and distinctive extracurricular activities. Essence magazine made a list, too, in partnership with Money magazine. Binghamton University. Towson University (MD).