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A special entity offering select undergraduates signature classes, early course registration and exclusive access to internships, research opportunities, social and cultural events, and small, discussion-based seminars. Today’s honors college is the product of a complex history. A community service component.
A liberalarts education is the ultimate preprofessional education; it can prepare you for any career. And so on … The other thing that keeps me up at night is that recurring dream where I need to take the final for a history class I didn’t realize I was registered for. I’ll be forever grateful for those days.
The private liberalarts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., Students attend a variety of events, including a Colloquium in Queer Culture and leadership seminars. is a unit of Bard College in New York and is designed as an early college program for 11th- and 12th-grade high school students.
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