Patrick Henry College is offering a four-year, up to full-tuition scholarship for a highly-qualified applicant to the College’s Journalism Major. The deadline for application is Feb. 1, 2008.
If you are unfamiliar with the academic quality of PHC, read this:
The Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) administered the American Civic Literacy Test (ACLT) to college students to measure their factual knowledge about American history, the Constitution and more. The results reveal that students nationwide lack even the basics. When ISI administered the ACLT in 2006 to a sample of students attending Ivy League schools:
- Harvard seniors answered 69.56 percent of the questions correctly, Yale seniors answered 65.85 percent correctly and Princeton seniors answered 61.90 percent.
- Freshmen at Patrick Henry College (PHC), a Christian classical college located 50 miles Northwest of the District, where 80 percent of the students come from home-schooling backgrounds, scored at 71.6 percent, two points higher than Harvard’s seniors and 17.4 percent higher than the average senior mean score at 50 of the country’s top institutions of higher education.
On a standardized test by Educational Testing Service known as MAPP (Measure of Academic Proficiency and Progress), which tests proficiency in critical thinking, reading, writing and mathematics, PHC freshmen also tested higher than seniors at every other participating institution, including Baylor University, the U.S. Air Force Academy, and the universities of Colorado, Georgia and Mississippi.
From Washington Times.
