Early entrance to college
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Early entrance to college, sometimes called early admission or early enrollment, is the practice of allowing students to be accelerated into college, one or more years before the traditional age of co
Pioneering environmentalist John Muir. Muir enrolled at the University of Wisconsin without any prior formal schooling.
A discussion class at Shimer College. Shimer's early entrance program has contributed a significant fraction of the student body for more than 60 years.
The University of Utah "U" in Salt Lake City. The University is one of the few original participants in the Early Admission Program to still admit selected high school juniors.
Robert Maynard Hutchins
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Robert Maynard Hutchins was an American educational philosopher. He was the 5th president and chancellor of the University of Chicago, and earlier dean of Yale Law School. His first wife was the novel
Early entrance to college
…active in the 1950s, as of 2011 the university only admits high school students on a concurrent enrollment basis. A more radical approach was adopted by Robert Maynard Hutchins for the College of the University of Chicago. Beginning in 1937, the University of Chicago's experimental, interdisciplinary College program admitted…
Hutchins c. 1954
Hutchins' Yale yearbook photo, 1921
Hutchins (left) is joined by namesake donor George Herbert Jones (right) and Jones' daughter during the dedication of the George Herbert Jones Laboratory in December 1929.