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The Challenge Is to Choose
What does it take to get into Swarthmore? This year, there are 385 answers to that question, says Jim Bock ’90, the College’s new dean of admissions and financial aid.
• Marketing Swarthmore: Even selective schools must seek out students.
• How to talk like an admissions dean

A Cappella Jamboree
At the last A Cappella Jamboree in May, end-of-semester pressures were cast aside for a few hours of musical freedom.
• Music to the ears: Web sites of Swarthmore a cappella groups

High Stakes for Education
As President George W. Bush’s education reform proposals limped through Congress this year, their reliance on standardized tests to determine the fate of students, teachers, and schools has sparked a national education debate.
• Jay Heubert ’73: At the crossroads of education, law, and civil rights

The Site as Self
Swarthmoreans use the World Wide Web to express their ideas and identities.

Stunned Campus
Students, faculty, and staff express horror after terrorist attack.

	Swarthmore College The Phoenix Alumni Relations Alumni Online Community News and Information For Parents Haverford College Bryn Mawr College Borough of Swarthmore Philly.com			Features The Challenge Is to Choose What does it take to get into Swarthmore? This year, there are 385 answers to that question, says Jim Bock ’90, the College’s new dean of admissions and financial aid. • Marketing Swarthmore: Even selective schools must seek out students. • How to talk like an admissions dean A Cappella Jamboree At the last A Cappella Jamboree in May, end-of-semester pressures were cast aside for a few hours of musical freedom. • Music to the ears: Web sites of Swarthmore a cappella groups High Stakes for Education As President George W. Bush’s education reform proposals limped through Congress this year, their reliance on standardized tests to determine the fate of students, teachers, and schools has sparked a national education debate. • Jay Heubert ’73: At the crossroads of education, law, and civil rights The Site as Self Swarthmoreans use the World Wide Web to express their ideas and identities. Stunned Campus Students, faculty, and staff express horror after terrorist attack.

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