1.   But those endorsements are paying off in attracting students like Bridget Curley, an entering freshman from Queens.

2.   Colleges across the nation have been forced to fund an explosion of remedial programs for entering freshmen who failed to learn enough to take first-year college courses.

3.   In each of the last three years, Ole Miss has broken its previous record for the average ACT score of its entering freshmen.

4.   The article asserted that the SAT scores of recent entering freshmen at Smith were declining.

5.   This is in contrast to a school system where half of all entering freshman fail to meet even the minimum requirements to graduate in four years.

6.   Three-quarters of the entering freshmen are assigned to at least one remedial or English-as-a-second-language class.

7.   To stop schools from recruiting athletes by admitting them with low grade point averages, athletes now must meet the minimum average required for all other entering freshman.