“We have prospective students from diverse educational backgrounds who apply to Christendom each year. Not everyone receives the same training for standardized testing while in high school. The CLT will give students a new way of producing test scores that relies on the works of C.S. Lewis, Socrates, and others, allowing them to reveal their knowledge in a manner that’s more in tune with the rigorous, liberal arts education provided at Christendom College,” says director of admissions Sam Phillips.
Classical Learning Initiatives (CLI) created the CLT in the fall of 2015 after co-founders Jeremy Tate and David Wagner considered the many problems inherent in contemporary American education, and desired to create solutions to them.
According to CLI, the CLT invites students to wrestle with works of the greatest minds in the history of Western thought across literary and mathematical content, with rich material reflecting both theistic and secular perspectives benefiting and enriching the student in the test taking process. Students can take this two-hour exam at a local testing center and receive test scores in less than a week.
Registration for the CLT opens on April 1. For more information on how to apply for Christendom via this new testing system, please contact the college’s admissions office. To discover more about the CLT, please visit here.