This article talks about a special program implemented at Towson University, wherein students are admitted into college even if they don't qualify under the regular admissions. The Towson program is an experiment, and Deborah J. Leather, the associate provost who runs it, acknowledges that it is too soon to tell whether the effort has been worth the risk. The university is bucking research indicating that high-school grades, not SAT scores, best predict how students will fare in college. In this article, the author discusses the conditions that the students must follow within the program. Here, the author presents the case of Adam M. Brooks, who was accepted as part of the Towson program.