Teach for America Recognizes Wooster as a Top Contributor Again

Eleven Wooster grads snare coveted spots in 2010 Teaching Corps

WOOSTER, Ohio, Aug. 2, 2010 – Teach for America has released its annual list of colleges with the most graduates entering the highly competitive program, and once again The College of Wooster is a top contributor. Eleven Wooster graduates are joining the 2010 Teaching Corps, the fifth largest contingent among schools with fewer than 3,000 students.

Teach for America received 46,000 applications this year and selected 4,500 young men and women to join the program, an acceptance rate of 12 percent.  According to a recent article in The New York Times, “To be accepted by Teach for America, applicants survived a lengthy process, with thousands cut at each step. That included an online application; a phone interview; presentation of a lesson plan; a personal interview; a written test; and a monitored group discussion with several other applicants.”

This is the second year in a row that Wooster has been recognized as one of the top contributors to the program.

Teach For America is the national corps of outstanding recent college graduates who commit to teach for two years in urban and rural public schools and become lifelong leaders in expanding educational opportunity.

The College of Wooster is an independent liberal arts college, nationally recognized for an innovative curriculum that emphasizes mentored, independent research. Each Wooster senior works one-on-one with a faculty adviser to create an original research project, written work, performance or art exhibit. Founded in 1866, the college enrolls approximately 2,000 students.