Sarah Lawrence College

Private liberal arts college in Yonkers

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2024 David Adjmi won a Tony Award for playwriting.
2024 Sarah Lawrence College admitted 49.9% of undergraduate applicants, maintaining its selective admissions process with an average admitted student high school GPA of 3.75.
2022 Forbes ranked Sarah Lawrence 467th overall in its America's Top Colleges ranking. In the same year, Washington Monthly ranked the college 155th in the liberal arts college category.
2020 Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
February 2020 Manhattan prosecutors charge Larry Ray with multiple serious offenses including conspiracy, extortion, sex trafficking, forced labor, and related charges after nearly 10 years of alleged transgressions with students and former students.
2019 The Barbara Walters Campus Center was completed in the fall, providing a multipurpose space for dances, speeches, and class gatherings, featuring a green roof and energy-efficient LED lighting.
September 2018 Lawrence became the 9th President of The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California.
July 2017 Lawrence stepped down after 10 years as president of Sarah Lawrence College.
2013 Four of Larry Ray's victims graduate from Sarah Lawrence College.
2011 Ray induces some students to move into Lee Chen's apartment in New York City, further expanding his influence over students.
September 2010 Larry Ray, a 50-year-old former prisoner, begins residing in the on-campus student housing dormitory apartment of his daughter Talia Ray in Slonim Woods Building 9, where she lived with seven other students.

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