We asked a literacy professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville,Tennessee.

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He has held the top job at West Virginia University, the University of Colorado, Brown University and Vanderbilt University.

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The roster of participating schools is impressive: Brandeis University, Duke University, Emory University, Northwestern University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University, Wake Forest University and Washington University in St.

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For instance, some highly regarded law schools, including those at Northwestern University, Georgetown University, Cornell University, UCLA, Vanderbilt University and the University of Minnesota, are currently still allowing promising students to send in applications for the school year starting in August or September, even though the official deadlines passed months ago.

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