Credit for qualifying AP/IB/Cambridge A Level exam scores is awarded first up to a maximum of 6.00 St. Olaf credits. Secondly, credit for PSEO courses is awarded up to a maximum of 4.00 St. Olaf credits. The maximum St. Olaf credits awarded for all pre-college transfer work cannot exceed 6.00 St. Olaf credits.
A Norwegian-influenced college established by Norwegian-American immigrants and named after an 11th century king of Norway, St. Olaf runs a number of Viking history programmes and Norwegian language courses.
St. Olaf, a nationally ranked, private liberal arts college on a scenic campus in rural Northfield, is home to about 3,000 undergraduate students. Since Lutheran Norwegian immigrants founded the school 1874, the college has grown in national stature. In recent years, the college has attracted an increasingly diverse student body. The school is renowned for its music and choral programs; its choir is widely considered one of the best in the country.
In 1876, negotiations were completed to purchase thirty acres on Manitou Heights, which would become the permanent home of the school. St. Olaf officially became a college in 1889, and in 1890 it received the sponsorship of the United Norwegian Lutheran Church. The church, however, severed ties with St. Olaf three years later while attempting to resolve an ongoing dispute with Augsburg Seminary. Until the church rekindled its relationship with St. Olaf in 1899, Professor Halvor T. Ytterboe worked on behalf of the school to raise enough funds to keep it operating.
World War II brought big changes to the school. Enrollment decreased, dropping from 1,122 students in 1941 to 707 in 1943. In 1943 the college agreed to house a US Navy pre-flight preparatory school on the campus.
The college celebrated its 125th anniversary in 1999. Its single largest construction project on campus to date, the student union Buntrock Commons, was dedicated on November 6 of the same year. The building continues to house dining areas, offices, a lecture hall and theater, conference rooms, and student entertainment spaces.
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