| U.S. News & World Report has singled out The College of Wooster as one of the top 10 colleges in America that “do the best job of teaching undergraduates.” |
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| Loren Pope, founder of Colleges That Change Lives, called The College of Wooster “my original best-kept secret in higher education…I can testify that there is no better college in the country.” |
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| The Fiske Guide to Colleges says “Instead of teaching students what to think, the College of Wooster focuses on teaching students how to think. From the first courses of the freshman year seminar to the final day when seniors hand in their hard-won theses, the college paves each student’s path to independence…The one-to-one attention from faculty makes Wooster an intellectual refuge in the rural countryside of Ohio.” |
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| Wooster students told the Princeton Review that the college "is about developing the autonomy of its students in all areas" from "their academic achievement and extracurricular activities to their self-awareness and ability to help others." Nowhere is this more evident than in the curriculum's "nationally renowned senior Independent Study (IS) project," which is where, students say, the "gold of Wooster lies." |
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