Dartmouth Drops Swim Requirement

For over a century, Dartmouth College students have been required to complete a 50-yard swimming test in order to graduate. And it’s not as though Dartmouth was the only highly selective college to require students to know how to swim in order to receive a degree. Cornell University, Columbia University, … 

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Cornell Cancels Fall Swim Test

It may surprise our readers to know that Cornell University requires its students to pass a swimming test in order to graduate from the Ithaca, New York-based institution. But it shouldn’t surprise all of our readers as we’ve blogged about the swim test requirement at various highly selective universities before … 

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Dartmouth Swim Test as Graduation Requirement

Dartmouth College requires that students complete a 50-yard swim test in order to graduate. The test is not timed and it can be completed at any point during a student’s four years in Hanover, New Hampshire (most students complete the swim test after their first-year trips before the start of … 

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