Sentences with phrase «acceptance rate in»

As I mentioned earlier, the acceptance rate in the Air Force for the last run of candidates was 4 %, a figure that is pretty representative of the military as a whole.

[2] Living up to its moniker of «cradle - to - college,» HCZ reported 96 % college acceptance rate in 2016.

Speaking to graduates of the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts in Thornton, CO, President Obama congratulated them on the achievement of taking a school with a 50 % college matriculation and turning it into a 100 % acceptance rate in only three years.

The graduation rates and college acceptance rates in Connecticut's charter schools need to be scrutinized.

Not exact matches

In those cases, women had acceptance rates of 71.8 percent when they used gender - neutral profiles.

With acceptance rates to some of the country's top - tier accelerators hovering around 1 percent, a standout application is integral to getting one's foot in the door.

«The startups in the tech incubator Y Combinator, whose acceptance rate is less than 3 percent, change products and markets so frequently that the idea they applied with is often irrelevant to the final product,» said Paul Graham of Y Combinator.

Stanford is the most selective college in the US — aside from the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, which has an acceptance rate of about 4 % but is more of a conservatory than a traditional university.

Even in its best years, its acceptance rate — often hovering in the 70 % to 80 % range — was much higher than the major business schools, which accept less than 20 % of their applicants.

This Christian college in Missouri has a lower acceptance rate than Cornell, the Ivy with the highest acceptance rate, and requires students to show financial need for admission.

Among the factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are the following: (1) worldwide economic, political, and capital markets conditions and other factors beyond the Company's control, including natural and other disasters or climate change affecting the operations of the Company or its customers and suppliers; (2) the Company's credit ratings and its cost of capital; (3) competitive conditions and customer preferences; (4) foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations in those rates; (5) the timing and market acceptance of new product offerings; (6) the availability and cost of purchased components, compounds, raw materials and energy (including oil and natural gas and their derivatives) due to shortages, increased demand or supply interruptions (including those caused by natural and other disasters and other events); (7) the impact of acquisitions, strategic alliances, divestitures, and other unusual events resulting from portfolio management actions and other evolving business strategies, and possible organizational restructuring; (8) generating fewer productivity improvements than estimated; (9) unanticipated problems or delays with the phased implementation of a global enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, or security breaches and other disruptions to the Company's information technology infrastructure; (10) financial market risks that may affect the Company's funding obligations under defined benefit pension and postretirement plans; and (11) legal proceedings, including significant developments that could occur in the legal and regulatory proceedings described in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2017, and any subsequent quarterly reports on Form 10 - Q (the «Reports»).

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

With about a 26 % acceptance rate, and an average Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) score of 712, the US News & World report ranks it as the 14th best business school in the US.

Federico partly attributes this to the increased amount of public and private investments for projects in the serviced office market that have had a high acceptance rate.

In fact, better employee engagement, higher job acceptance rates and recognition as employer of choice, all emerged as the top benefits of employer branding, according to the poll.

The emergence of such «stagflation» in the late 1970s [13] led to general acceptance of the natural - rate hypothesis, the idea that abnormally low unemployment causes inflation to accelerate.

Sustainability Reporting: Final chart in this session looks at the proportion of companies which have adopted «sustainability reporting» - it speaks to the emerging field of ESG research where there is a growing acceptance and body of evidence which says that ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) factors are also relevant and can particularly be useful in filtering out companies that are at risk of brand impairment, legal liability, and general backlash due to inferior ESG practices and ratings.

A useful group - life checklist allowing participants to rate a group on communication, acceptance of persons, leadership, climate of relationships, and other aspects can be found in Philip Anderson's Church Meetings that Matter.10 Evaluation is not a frill; rather it is essential to discovering what you are accomplishing in groups and how you can do better.

The difference in understanding between «comprehensiveness» and «emotionality» also explains the close link between high divorce rates and acceptance of gay marriage, and helps explain why so many people are no longer able to see the validity of objections to gay marriage.

The cultural changes that Fuchs and Reklis have in mind are increasing individualism, growing preoccupation with individual fulfillment, wider tolerance for divorce as a solution to marital problems, and more general acceptance at all social levels of the high rates of out - of - wedlock births and single parenthood.

High acceptance levels and repeat purchase rates have resulted in national listings in both cash & carry and supermarkets across the world.

Browse profiles on everything from from student - to - faculty ratios to acceptance rates and the percentage of students who successfully graduate in four years.

After the long labor, slow progress, Pitocin, the offer and acceptance of the epidural, the decrease in heart rate and — after 37 hours of labor — the c - section on February 5th, 1992.

This is something that would be highly desirable to see in the UK where we have some of the worst breastfeeding rates in the world, and little acceptance of it in public.

Cuomo touted both of those measures in his 28 - minute acceptance speech, as well as a phased - in minimum wage increase that some of his party - mates are trying to accelerate, and his decision to renew most of a suite of higher income tax rates first enacted in 2009 by David Paterson.

The acceptance rate for Eritrean refugees promptly plummeted from 84 % in 2014 to 44 % in 2015.

The acceptance of the policy by George Osborne and David Cameron is political in nature, but in failing to fight the argument they are allowing Labour to set the agenda in favour of higher marginal rates of tax in that people will assume that the Conservative leadership must have decided that it will raise money, otherwise they would oppose it

students who were taught evolution or neither evolution nor creationism in high school had significantly higher acceptance rates of evolution than those taught both evolution and creationism or just creationism;

Even in the unlikely scenario that ending racial preferences forced all these students to surrender their seats to white and Asian - American students, acceptance rates for the remaining students would only increase from 10 to 12 %.

The broad top - of - the - heap journals have very low acceptance rates and attempt to publish articles that make conclusions that shift the current paradigm in a field.

They found that whilst the teaching of evolution increased acceptance rates to over 80 per cent in the cohort examined, the order of teaching had no effect.

These risks and uncertainties include, among others, those relating to our ability to obtain financing and to form collaborative relationships, uncertainty regarding potential future deterioration in the market for auction rate securities which could result in additional permanent impairment charges, our ability to develop and market diagnostic products, the level of third party reimbursement for our products, risks related to preclinical and clinical development of pharmaceutical products, including the identification of compounds and the completion of clinical trials, the effect of government regulation and the regulatory approval processes, market acceptance, our ability to obtain and protect intellectual property rights for our products, dependence on collaborative relationships, the effect of competitive products, industry trends and other risks identified in deCODE's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, the risk factors identified in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10 - K and any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10 - Q or Current Reports on Form 8 - K.

June 20, 2016 Microbiota affect the rate of transplant acceptance and rejection Researchers from the University of Chicago have shown that microbiota — the bacteria, viruses and other microbes living on the skin and in the digestive system — play an important role in the body's ability to accept transplanted skin and other organs.

Online ratings that review physicians — just like ratings for restaurants, movies and mechanics — can influence what doctor a patient chooses, but most patients rank insurance acceptance and convenience as more important factors, according to U-M research published Feb. 18 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Consequently, the collective acceptance of interracial dating was mirrored in their matching and to this day the rate of multiracial couples birthed by these sites is still rising.

This is evident in the rapid rate at which dating sites have grown in popularity and acceptance.

Over 50 percent of LeagueLove couples went to colleges that were ranked similarly in terms of cost and acceptance rate — and over 80 percent had obtained the same level of degree.

BeautifulPeople.net has about a one - in - 10 acceptance rate worldwide.

Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, a high school in Newark, New Jersey, run by the Benedictine monks of Newark Abbey, has recorded a near 100 percent college - acceptance rate for their predominantly African American and Latino young men — a rate that soars well above the average for the city.

In the years since, we've opened two additional schools, launched additional programs to support students» success beyond high school, and achieved a 100 % college acceptance rate for our graduates.

It is common that many learners discontinue using eLearning after the initial acceptance, which results in low retention rates.

And in 2017, the school saw a 100 percent graduation rate — 17 percentage points above the national average — and a 98 percent college acceptance rate.

Today, HCZ reports that it currently has 913 HCZ students in college and boasts a 93 percent college acceptance rate from its programs for 2015.

With such selective admissions — it was harder to gain entry to the University of Helsinki's teacher education program (6.8 percent acceptance rate) than the law program (8.3 percent acceptance rate) or the medical school (7.3 percent acceptance rate) in 2016 — and rigorous preparation, one might expect Finland to suffer teacher shortages not unlike those seen in the U.S..

In the two years before that, HOPE's college acceptance rate was 87 percent and 92 percent, respectively.

Amistad High School in New Haven was ranked as the number 3 high school in Connecticut thanks to its 100 % college acceptance rate.

When student test scores on the Ohio Academic Assessment indicated that only 33 % of Jones sixth graders were at the minimum state acceptance rates, middle childhood education students at Lourdes College stepped in to volunteer an hour each week to work with the sixth grade students to improve their reading proficiency.

A while back, there was an article in the Hartford Courant, of all places, that claimed to do a follow - up on the college - acceptance rate of Achievement First and its twin, the Amistad Academy.

LA School Report noted, «Of the top 20 schools in LA Unified with the highest UC acceptance rates, calculated by School Data Nerd blog, more than half -LSB-...]

Guggenheim unfairly puts a large emphasis on the role of charter schools, showing that they are intensely effective when it comes to test scores and college acceptance rates when they are only 17 % superior in math test scores.