January 26, 2007

Towson U. Gives Men With Low Grades a Chance at College

By ROBIN WILSON

A few days before his high-school graduation last spring, as most of his friends were home relaxing, Adam M. Brooks was holed up in a classroom dashing off three essays' worth of makeup work. The assignments would determine whether he would earn a diploma.

"I got out by the skin of my teeth," says Mr. Brooks, who had been a good student until the eighth grade, when, he says, "my grades dropped off the face of the earth." The problem was that as he became involved in theater, chorus,

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