College of Wooster is a private liberal arts college in Wooster, Ohio.
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16 Facts About Wooster College
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Early Wooster College teams were known as the Presbyterians or unofficially as the 'Presbyterian Steamroller' due to the football team's success .
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Some pre-professional programs are cooperative ones in which students spend a certain period of time at the College of Wooster before transferring to accelerated courses at other colleges and universities.
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College of Wooster has an Independent Study program, in which all students work one-on-one with a faculty advisor to complete a written thesis or other significant project during the course of the senior year, usually about 50 to 100 pages in length.
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Preparation and completion of the thesis can be time-consuming, and led to one view in which a student, writing in the weekly The Wooster College Voice, suggested that the independent study program be interwoven with career planning as well as applications to graduate schools.
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College of Wooster is a residential campus and has 16 residence halls, which house 16 to 270 students each, and 30 program houses.
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Over a forty-year time span, Wooster College sent several former students to serve as Head Resident at Ewing while Ewing faculty were brought to Wooster College as Ewing Fellows; a plaque with the names of Ewing Fellows hangs in Babcock Hall.
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College of Wooster has hosted numerous fraternities, sororities and honor societies since its establishment.
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College of Wooster has over one hundred student organizations, from the Jenny Investment Club, which allows students to invest real money for the college as they learn about the stock market, to Common Grounds, a student-run coffee shop and house program offering 'an alternative atmosphere to the partying scene' for the college community.
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The Wooster Voice is the weekly student newspaper with a newly launched website, and has been published continuously since 1886, while WOO 91, which was at WCWS-FM until 2019, is the college's online radio station.
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Wooster College is well known for its Moot Court team as part of the American Moot Court Association, ranked second in the nation in 2017 by the ACMA.
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In 1983, Wooster College broke away from the OAC to form the North Coast Athletic Conference .
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Wooster College has made 23 appearances in the NCAA baseball tournament under head coach Tim Pettorini, who has led the Scots since 1982.
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Wooster College's teams have won 17 NCAC championships and have made 24 appearances in the NCAA Men's Division III Basketball Championship, including a record 14 in a row from 2003 through 2016.
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University of Wooster College scored the first touchdown in the state of Ohio against Denison University in 1888 and was a football powerhouse in Ohio.
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Charles Follis, the first black professional football player, attended the University of Wooster College and starred on the baseball team before signing with the Shelby Athletic Club to play professional football in 1902.
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