Sentences with phrase «admission test scores»

More recently, the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) released new standards for teacher training programs: among them, each cohort of entrants should have a collective grade - point average (GPA) of 3.0 and college admission test scores above the national average by 2017 and in the top one - third by 2020.

• Tulane political science professor William Gwyn told SI that he has seen admission test scores of Tulane athletes and that they are «immeasurably below standard.»

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Don't sweat it if your GPA is low; instead, look for other ways to get an edge, like earning a great score on your Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT).

It's the first thing, other than standardized GMAT test scores, an admissions officer will look at.

All candidates for the program will be required to pass the EDT, unless they have already written a Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) within the last 5 years and achieved a minimum score of 500 or the equivalent in the GRE.

While Cassin's GRE score was competitive enough to secure her admission to two top business programs — just shy of 700 — she said one thing she wished she had known was how much your standardized test scores follow you, even after the admissions process.

The survey, published today (Dec. 2) by Kaplan Test Prep, found that 48 % of some 288 responding admissions staffers said that a weak score on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT) or the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) is the biggest application killer.

Kaplan found that 65 % of the responding admissions officials who accept scores from either test say there is no advantage to applicants submitting one over the other.

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.

Only about one black student in seven scores above the 50th percentile on standardized college admissions tests.

Earlier, SMU had denied Bliss's star recruit, Larry Johnson, now the UNLV star, admission because of questions about his SAT test scores.

Sports, like grades and test scores, become part of a student's competitive package that is offered to college admissions in hopes of making the cut.

The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

We have found that eliminating valedictorian status and class rankings has reduced stress at certain schools — especially those where achievement in the form of grades and test scores and college admission rates is valued above all other traits.

She also cited the College Board's decision this year to reinstate «score choice» for students, allowing a student to decide which test scores admissions officers will receive.

The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: Success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs.

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For all applicants, the first task is to fill out the application online and for students in grades 1 - 12 to arrange to have school reports, teacher recommendations, and test scores forwarded to our online admissions portal.

While some colleges no longer require SAT or ACT scores for admission, most college - bound students will need to take at least one of these tests.

Hofstra University is joining the growing ranks of campuses across the country that are making the SAT and ACT optional rather than requiring students to submit scores from those admissions tests when they apply.

The DOE wants the middle school planed for vacant sections of popular P.S. 158 to admit students who meet somewhat stringent admissions criteria, such as good attendance records or test scores, as well as students who would meet lower standards, according to a notice released by the department.

Although thousands of black and Hispanic kids take the admissions test each year, only a handful score high enough to get in.

Millennium gives preference to students from below Houston Street, and so far all those who meet the admissions criteria — an A average, good attendance and strong test scores — have always been offered a seat.

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These papers add to a growing body of information suggesting that widely used «objective» admissions measures, such as GRE test scores and GPA, are exactly the wrong way to go about picking future contributors to scientific progress.

As the authors of the new UNC study write, admissions committees often assume that «[t] ypical selection criteria [such as] standardized test scores, undergraduate GPA, letters of recommendation, a resume and / or personal statement highlighting relevant research or professional experience, and feedback from interviews with training faculty... correlate with research success in graduate school.»

He had always been an excellent student — he had his 15 minutes of fame after scoring fifth among all high school graduates on Egypt's national college admissions test — and he was determined to succeed in academia.

After earning the fifth highest score in the nation on Egypt's annual college admissions test, Elsayed comes to California and overstays his 6 - month tourist visa.

They also hope that university admissions officers consider taking into account what applicants «know» (for example, what they learned in their high school elective classes), in addition to their grades and standardized test scores.

However, these correlations emerge only through multivariate analyses that control for the more dominant correlations of test scores with demographic variables — systematics for which graduate admissions committees rarely correct quantitatively.

You need good grades, a good score on the MCAT (Medical College Admission Test), and have multiple extracurricular activities that show how serious you are about medicine.

Using methodology developed with Ed School Lecturer Terrence Tivnan, he compared the «academic rating» that admissions officers assign to applicants (a combination of grades, test scores, teacher recommendations, etc.) with their actual academic performance once they enrolled at Middlebury.

For admission, they must score at an 8th - grade level on standardized reading and math tests (the Richmond Tech PLC raised that to 9th grade because it had so many applicants), pass an interview, and sign an achievement contract that also commits them to attend a daily meeting called Morning Motivation.

The study's chief author Daniel Koretz and his colleagues used a simplified model of the University of California admissions process and real test scores to examine the impact of attempts to roll back affirmative action in postsecondary admissions on eight California campuses.

Add to this the findings (from Bowen, Chingos and McPherson's Crossing the Finish Line) that high school grades have a more predictive value of college success than standardized tests, and you may just see a shift from standardized test scores to high school GPA by some college admissions officers.

Finally, while exam - school students have considerably higher fluid cognitive skills (as would be expected of students who gain admission via test scores and grades), attending one of these locally renowned schools in the company of other bright students confers no systematic advantage.

Boston's oversubscribed charter schools are of particular interest, as multiple studies have exploited the lottery admissions process to document the schools» effectiveness in raising student test scores (see «Boston and the Charter School Cap,» features, Winter 2014).

These schools hold admissions lotteries, which enable researchers to compare the subsequent test - score performance of students who enroll to that of similar students not given the same opportunity.

Predicting freshman grade - point average from college - admissions and state high - school test scores.

Will not consider SAT writing - test score for fall 2006 admissions, pending study

Some colleges have either adopted a policy making the submission of SAT scores optional or will not consider the results of the SAT writing test in admissions:

U.S. District Judge Ronald L. Buckwalter of Philadelphia said March 16 that granting such a stay would not «further the public interest» because the NCAA's minimum college - admissions - test scores were found to discriminate against African - American student athletes.

Many colleges and universities also use AP test scores as an integral part of their admissions decisions.

When the College Board announced, in the summer of 2002, that it would stop «flagging» the test scores of students who were given special accommodations for the SAT, the gold standard exam for college admission, disability advocates were thrilled.

Whether one looks at standardized test scores, at graduation rates, or at college admission test results, American high - school performance has hardly budged over the past three decades.

Whether one looks at standardized test scores, at graduation rates, or at college admission test results,

Without flagging, an admissions officer has no way of knowing whether the SAT scores of two candidates can be compared with one another, since there is no way of knowing whether the two candidates took the test under the same conditions.

The flagging of SAT scores protected the test's usefulness as a common standard of measurement by informing readers, such as college - admissions officers, when the test had been taken under unusual conditions, such as receiving time and a half to finish the standard three - hour exam.

The only data ever published showing that test - optional and «don't ask, don't tell» test score practices get private and public universities stronger and more socially diverse students than admissions that require test scores; and

The SAT college admission test will no longer require a timed essay, will dwell less on fancy vocabulary, and will return to the familiar 1600 - point scoring scale in a major overhaul intended to open doors to higher education for students who are now shut out.