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Each year, 500 to 550 first-years like Buford have the opportunity to graduate from the College within three years, according to Deborah Foster, director of the advanced standing program. To be eligible for the program, students must have completed college-level course work in high school and earned satisfactory marks on Advanced Placement or international examinations...
...only 250 to 300 students in any given class choose to accept advanced standing, and only 30 to 35 of those individuals graduate in three years, Foster says. Proponents and critics of the program differ over the reasons for these low numbers...
...Ultimately, there's a great advantage to being an undergraduate for four years," Foster says. "There's so much here. Your life is so long, and your college education is short...
Students who are eligible for advanced standing must decide whether to accept it by the second semester of their first year, Foster says...
Oppenheimer said his goals are to "revitalize the BGLSA as a political force on campus, to use the BGLSA as a platform for the struggle against homophobia and for lesbian, gay and transgender liberation and to foster diversity within the lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual community...