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Sarah Lawrence is a coeducational liberal arts college, offering undergraduate as well as graduate degrees. Located just north of New York City on a wooded campus, the College is nationally renowned for its rigorous academic and creative standards. These are fostered by small seminar classes and individual student-faculty tutorials made possible by a very low student-to-faculty ratio of 6-to-1. It is a lively community of students, scholars, and artists offering outstanding programs in the humanities, the natural sciences and mathematics, history and the social sciences, and the creative and performing arts.

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School Overview:

	Sarah Lawrence College
County	Westchester County, NY
Title IV Eligible	Yes
Carnegie Classification	Baccalaureate (Liberal Arts) Colleges I
Institution Level	4 or more years
Institution Control	Private, non-profit
Full-Time Undergraduate	1,266 students
Part-Time Undergraduate	73 students
Full-Time Graduate	236 students
Part-Time Graduate	87 students

Total Enrollment	1,662 students
Total Dormitory Capacity	1,021 students
% Students Receiving Some Financial Aid	66%
% Students Receiving Federal Grants	14%
Avg. Amount Of Federal Grants Received	$3,067
% Students Receiving State/Local Grants	8%
Avg. Amount Of State/Local Grants Received	$2,855
% Students Receiving Institutional Grants	47%
Avg. Amount Of Institutional Grants Received	$17,690
% Students Receiving Loans	66%
Avg. Amount Of Loan Received	$2,143

School Notes:

The educational aims and objectives of the college are realized through practices which center upon the growth of the individual and the crucial role played in this growth by the relationship between student and teacher. We believe this humanistic stance to be important in a time of increasing depersonalization and specialization. These practices are translated into a set of characteristics which, taken together, mark the college as distinctive.
We provide a three-course educational program for all students. In special cases, students may take four courses and, in the senior year, may elect to do a consolidated Senior Thesis under the guidance of teachers in several areas of study.
Campus life at SLC reflects the intellectual, social and personal interests of the entire College community. The freedom to pursue your interests—both academically and socially—makes possible a level of engagement that blurs the line between work and play. Your academic pursuits integrate seamlessly with—and inform—your social endeavors...and vice versa. On-campus events regularly include poetry readings and performances, theatre and dance productions, art exhibits, musical performances featuring on-campus musicians as well as local and national performers, dances, bands, films and special events.
Sarah Lawrence College is located 15 miles north of midtown Manhattan in southern Westchester County, New York, bordering the communities of Yonkers and Bronxville. The SLC campus occupies 41 wooded acres. Ivy-covered Tudor-style and contemporary buildings house classrooms, faculty offices and students. Sarah Lawrence has outstanding library, performing arts, music, visual arts, science, computing and sports facilities.
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Looking for a summer camp in the Bronxville-Scarsdale area? Check out these options for your little one (The Journal News)
posted on April 19, 2011 at 06:04:38 am
Sarah Lawrence College offers summer programs for high school students in filmmaking, musical theater, creative writing and the literature, history, theater and architecture of New York City. Here, musical theater students enrolled in last year's program perform at the college's Suzanne Werner Wright Theatre.
Why Sarah Lawrence Is the Most Expensive College in America (The Atlantic Wire)
posted on April 14, 2011 at 09:50:52 pm
Placing first in a college ranking rarely inspires college presidents to pen defenses of their institutions. But when that list documents America's most expensive colleges, the instinct makes a little more sense. At Inside Higher Ed today, Karen Lawrence, the president of Sarah Lawrence College, explains why the small liberal arts college in Bronxville, New York has the honor of bestowing the ...
Special needs racers team learn with Sarah Lawrence swimmers (The Journal News)
posted on December 9, 2010 at 07:40:22 am
BRONXVILLE — Sarah Lawrence College's swimming pool echoed with shouted instructions, but the parents gathered on the other side of a glass window could only see — not hear — the action.
America's most expensive colleges (WALB Albany)
posted on October 12, 2010 at 02:59:07 pm
Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, N.Y., tops Forbes' list this year at $57,556.
Sarah Lawrence costliest college at $57K a year (Chicago Sun-Times)
posted on October 6, 2010 at 09:00:52 am
New York is home to the three most expensive colleges in the country, Forbes magazine says in a list of the U.S. priciest schools published this week.Sarah Lawrence College, in Bronxville, charges students the most for the 2010-11 school year: $57,556 -- including tuition and fees of $43,556 and $14,000 for room and board.Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson is next, charging $54,275. Columbia ...