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THE PENDULUM Volume 30, Issue 1 SUMMARY OPINION m3 V Tips to survive college from columnist Jonathan Chapman. Saep. 7 ARTS.S. ENIERIAINMINJ Wondering where the local attractions are? seep- 8 ItAlURtS Looking for space savers ,in your dorm room? See p. 12 M'ORIS August 27, 2004 matters to you. it matters to The Pendito vmw.elon.edu/pendulum OL’s prepare for class of 2008 Familiarize yourself with Elon s fall sports teams. See p. 14 jeff Heyer I Photo Editor Eton Orientation Leaders participated in several team building activities the week before students arrived back on campus. This group of Elon men and women help incoming freshmen students adjust to col lege life. Orientation leaders apply for the positions during spring semester and begin meeting before the end of the academic year. Orientation leaders, in addition to meeting with a group during orientation, will help freshmen move into their dorm rooms. FrPihmen boast better academic records 1? i ^ Klooman said the school a change in the quality of new stu- Andrew S. Hjgh Mews Editor As the f« Elon University wel- “'Cl 235 fUmen.0 campus m“las;of2008,halB"g^ countries stronger ac featuring an SAT score of 1169 and an average SAl score and ad* sionsprocess^jn^^^^^^ the universi y . pnent plans . men before Susan heads the admissions ™^-irXtrU«ona. priorities, we were to admit a class of between 1200 and 1225 with an average SAT of 1165” she said. “Every year before July or by August 1 we have set the prionties for the next year.” Recently, standardized test scores and GPAs have been on the rise amongst incoming students as the applications process has Jlcome much more competitive “The SAT goes up approxi mately 10 points on *e ave^^ every year,” Klopman said, ^e GPA range doesn’t change dra matically but it continues to inch higher For example, this year the Sghsehtwlgtadepo^^'^f'; 31 Thai’s What we would have told you it 59^1d“this would have been 3.59 an year it’s 3.62. Klopman said the school received 1,000 more applications than last year, due in part to the school’s range of attractive pro grams. Elon accepted 41 percent of applicants. “We get applications from stu dents with better academic pro files,” she said. “If they come in better, then they drive the whole class forward to a higher level. Our best recruiters are our very own students going home and telling others how much they like Elon and value their education here. That is a huge part. Part and parcel of that is I think our fellows programs continue to attract better and better students.” Rosemary Haskell, a professor of English with 19 years of teach ing experience at Elon has noticed a change in the quality of new stu dents, noticing a difference over even five years ago. “I think students’ writing abili ties have improved,” Haskell said. “I teach college writing and litera ture. I think on the whole I’ve seen a steady increase in students’ abil ity to write fairly long, fairly com plex papers on a variety of topics. I think writing is being taught more effectively at a lot of high schools.” Klopman said better students are finding out more about Elon as the school has found it’s way into college ranking publications. “We’re finding that people are reading those,” she said. “Between the rankings and the web, people are finding Elon See DIVERSE p~4
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