Sentences with phrase «university admits students»

Universities admit students and offer course credit to those who earn high scores on AP examinations.

Not exact matches

They must either score high on the end - of - school exam (which only half of students typically pass) so that they can get admitted to a university and get a reputable job like a teacher or a doctor — or they must marry right away.

NYU President Sexton heads up the third most expensive university in the country (and, yes, my alma mater), but even he admits that this model is far from perfect and that there are too many universities charging students too much for too weak an education.

This takes some of the burden off the government funding, and still allows universities to grow and admit more students every year.

A graduate of Bunbury Cathedral Grammar, Andrew Hall admits he was hardly a model student when he started a science degree in the early 1990s at the University of Western Australia.

After finishing at UVA, Spencer was admitted into a master's program in the humanities at the University of Chicago in 2002, where he mingled with other students in his program including «Jews and Muslims, Africans and African - Americans, gay men and women,» according to the Point Magazine.

The Institute of International Education found that US universities admitted more than 1 million international students in the 2015 - 16 school year, nearly 329,000 of which were Chinese students.

For Admission information please refer to the University of Calgary Academic Calendar Please note that the Haskayne School of Business only admits students for the Fall session

I met Richard Spencer in April 2002, at a three - day open house for students admitted to the University of Chicago's Master of Arts Program in the Humanities (MAPH).

Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework - up to a year of it - in order to stay.

Bob Jones University had policies that refused black students enrollment until 1971, and admitted only married blacks from 1971 to 1975.

Perhaps their greatest contribution is admitting that religion no longer claims center stage in university life and must «compete» for student loyalty with sporting events, musical ensembles and lecture series.

Religion has even become a problem at religious schools, as when Gonzaga University, a Catholic Jesuit school, initially denied the Knights of Columbus official student club status because the club practices «religious discrimination» (and «gender discrimination») by admitting only Catholic men.

That is, the data used in the study suspiciously match another data set entirely; the prestigious gay - rights research institute at the grad student's university says it did not fund any survey effort as he claimed it did; the student admits to having no such funding and to not having paid survey respondents as he claimed; the private firm allegedly employed to collect survey data says it has never heard of him or his study.

Though the university never admitted discrimination by the school's then - dean and faculty, research by the Anti-Defamation League showed that 65 % of the Jewish students at that time either flunked out or were forced to repeat coursework — up to a year of it — in order to stay.

The campus pastor at North Park University in Chicago admitted officiating at the wedding of two men, one of whom was a former student and colleague of hers.

Carnegie Mellon University offers students the option of joining its «Priority Waitlist,» which means students pledge to attend if admitted.

Sheffield Hallam University's student union president Caroline Howd is among those who have admitted their frustration with the Lib Dems.

The government has announced that privately - owned universities will be granted some tax reliefs thereby enabling them to thrive and admit more students.

On health, President Mahama said the establishment of the Public Health School of the University of Health and Allied Science at Hohoe was on course and would soon start admitting students.

The number of students admitted into university after results is down seven per cent on last year, with 79,000 still waiting for answers and 10,000 applying through clearing.

He said 816 direct jobs have been created from the University of Health and Allied Science in Ho which government has set up and has admitted over 800 students.

The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Otuoke, Bayelsa State, Prof. Accra Jaja, said on Saturday that 2,602 students were admitted into academic programmes in six faculties for 2017/2018 academic year.

When a high school student is not admitted to a college or university, they receive a rejection letter.

Applicants who attended community college after high school before transferring to a four - year college or university were 30 percent less likely to be admitted, compared to those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four - year university to medical school, after adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, parental education, grade point average and MCAT score.

Rather than requiring an institution to reduce the number of African American and Latino students admitted, Justices C. Thomas and A. Scalia pointed out that a university could also reduce its academic selectivity to accommodate a race - neutral policy.

As a result, selective colleges and universities would have to admit six times as many students under an income - based policy to yield the same number of black and Hispanic youth as would result from an explicitly race - based policy.

He admits that Japan probably faces similar problems to Britain when it comes to the quality of students signing up for science at university (see «Classroom science goes into free fall», New Scientist, 4 December).

«The universities admit too many graduate students who end up in a cul - de-sac due to the lack of academic research posts for new Ph.D. s», says graduate - student spokesperson Kerstin Beckenius from Karolinska.

If Americans are not available to staff a lab, university professors have the option of foreign talent, as graduate students admitted to the country on student visas, or postdocs, admitted under what Teitelbaum calls the «essentially unlimited numbers of H - 1B visas» are available to universities because of an exception available to non-profit institutions.

And the state of Hawaii, which challenged the revised ban, argued that the policy would harm the state by barring students who had been admitted to the University of Hawaii.

Although as a postgraduate research student I have to admit that I wasn't even sure where the university careers service offices were for the first two and a half years of my PhD, they proved to be a great starting point for finding out about «alternative careers» for scientists.

Falling state support for public universities has created «perverse incentives» to admit foreign students who pay full out - of - state tuition and don't receive financial aid, Teitelbaum said.

This means that it is possible for a student who was awarded a partial scholarship when they were first admitted to the University, to then be awarded an additional partial scholarship in a future scholarship round, as a current student.

Mr. Mikita has achieved numerous milestones for individuals with disabilities as the first admitted student in a wheelchair in the history of Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude; the first student in a wheelchair at Brigham Young University's Law School and the first recipient of the Muscular Dystrophy Association's National Personal Achievement Award for his advocacy on behalf of people with disabilities.

Students from Mexico admitted to Master's degree programmes at Lund University and who also receive funding from the Mexican Government's Fund for Human Resource Development (FIDERH) are eligible for a partial scholarship.

During the ten - year period, universities and university colleges increased their numbers of undergraduates, admitted more doctoral students, hired more people, and faced higher salary costs.

Non - EU / EEA students (required to pay tuition fees to Lund University) admitted to full - time studies of at least 30 ECTS (does generally not apply to exchange students from partner universities)

Watch on YouTube: An overview of how to apply for housing, the different housing options available and key providers for students admitted to autumn 2018 degree studies at Lund University

38 % of female undergraduate students of the American university who answered the questions admitted to having experienced sexual victimization.

The University of Mississippi admitted its first black student, James Meredith.

Following recent demand - driven reforms, some universities are admitting larger numbers of teacher education students with increasingly low Year 12 performances — a trend that may continue as the number of teachers required to staff our schools grows over the next decade.

Here's my answer: «No one ever worries about what percentage of students are admitted to a college because they can afford to pay full tuition, or because their parents attended a particular university.

One of my teachers told me about how he was admitted to Cornell, a really hot Ivy League school, but chose the University of Rochester because he'd felt lost in a 4,000 - student high school and wanted a small college where he thought he'd have more opportunities.

«Only about 10 undocumented students are admitted to Harvard each year,» speculates Meza - Pena, who had planned to attend University of California — Berkeley — and pay in - state tuition — if she hadn't attended Harvard.

Three quarters of university students admit they don't ask for help with their mental health because they're embarrassed, they don't know where to find it or they think it's a waste of time.

While reaffirming their commitment to admitting students regardless of their academic standing, the trustees of the City University of New York unanimously adopted the plan, called the College Preparatory Initiative.

Third, Lee spoke of his accomplishments in moving Korean universities to emulate how students are admitted.

Lower - income students tend to have lower scores and were thus crowded out of more selective universities that they would have been admitted to before the expansion in scholarship aid.

She says, «Whether they like to admit it or not, college prep schools often are greatly affected by AP exam scores, SAT test scores, and the number of students they can place in prestigious universities.»