Summary of Objectives & Goals: The Student
Body
Objective: To have a student body of the quality and diversity
essential to a college of excellence and the size appropriate to the
Wooster’s physical and financial resources.
A Wooster education is distinguished by a high level of intellectual challenge,
and for this education to be successful it is essential to have a student
body ready to meet the challenge. This expectation for excellence comes
from both faculty and peers. It is also essential to have a student body
of appropriate size. For purposes of setting new goals of high priority
to be pursued for 2004-08, the following characteristics of the student
body are seen as prerequisites; and it is estimated that they can be
maintained by status quo expenditures:
- Selectivity for the first-year class at a level of 70% or better;
- Mean SAT scores of at least 1190;
- Mean high school grade point average of at least 3.58;
- Special indicators of intellectual, creative, and humanitarian accomplishments
(e.g. science fair projects, poetry publications, social service internships);
and
- Average annual enrollment at between 1750 and 1800 full-time equivalent
students on campus.
In the context of the above prerequisites, Wooster’s student body
must have a diverse mix of students enabling unique contributions to the
College’s intellectual environment. The diversity of the student body
relative to ethnic background, international representation, religious
diversity, and socio-economic circumstances is key in meeting our goal
of educating students for a complex society. needs to be improved, and
thus the following goals are judged of high priority for 2004-08,
in order to strengthen the diversity of the student body relative to ethnic
background, international representation, religious diversity, and socio-economic
circumstances:
GOALS
- To maintain at a minimum the current numbers of domestic minority students
and to achieve at least 6% African American and 6% Asian American, Hispanic,
and Native American combined.
- To maintain at a minimum the current number of international students
and to achieve at least 7% international students.
Wooster also recognizes the need to improve its rates of student retention,
particularly for purposes of maintaining diversity. The following goal
should thus also be pursued:
- To achieve retention of 90% from first to second year, and a six-year
graduation rate of 75%.
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