Sentences with phrase «admissions tests like»

Yet Raymond and Hanushek's review looked only at the results from our analysis of NAEP, ignoring the effects that high - school graduation exams have had on college - admissions tests like the SAT and on participation and performance in Advanced Placement courses.

Socrato is designed to simplify the way students practice and improve their scores on important admission tests like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and others.

Not exact matches

«Over the last 10 to 20 years, because of blogs and the applicant community and discussion forums, people have developed a really good sense of what the admissions process looks like, down to what kinds of questions are asked and how they manage the interview,» Vice Dean Karl T. Ulrich explained in an interview when the school announced the new test.

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).

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.

Skyrim is a great game brought down by bugs, great sound and great role play features brought down by a confusing and semi-difficult to use menu system where I end up either equipping an unintended item or accidentally closing the menu all together, and the infamous bugs, many quests are currently bugged and by Bethesda's own admission they will not even begin working on the majority of them untill January if i'm not mistaken, also there is a texture problem for most xbox 360 users to where the game looks like it could have been made in 2006 which is quite frankly inexcusable considering I noticed this within the first 10 minutes of playing (This is why we beta test).

Like other public schools with competitive admissions, TJ screens applicants through grades and test scores.

Other students, like Fisher (who is now a senior at Louisiana State University), are offered admission based on a mix of factors, including race, community service, leadership qualities, test scores, and work experience.

When the eighth grade students who scored well on the state test took the admissions test for the specialized high schools like Stuyvesant and Bronx Science, not one of them passed the test.

Your gift will provide students, like Rudra, with academic enrichment, tutoring, mentoring, test prep, high school and college admissions guidance, financial aid counseling, internship placement — and a place in our family, for life.

There are some great district public schools that don't use admissions tests... sure wish there was more discussion of those and more questioning of elite quasi private schools like the one mentioned above.

The shift is leading some educators and college admissions officers to fear that the revised test will penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading, or who speak a different language at home — like immigrants and the poor.

For this reason, you should consider a highly selective school like Duke to be a reach school even if your grades and test scores are on target for admission.

[The CSDE FAQ sheet indicates that, in Connecticut, only Yale requires the SAT optional essay, while leaving unsaid the fact that many colleges and universities (like Wesleyan, Connecticut College, and others) no longer require any SAT test scores at all because their college admissions» officers have found such scores as a poor indicator of college success.]

At the same time, more colleges and universities, including Trinity College, have changed their admissions policies to make tests like the SAT and ACT optional in order to encourage a more diverse group of applicants.

Above all, Villar stresses that the SBAC test won't affect things like college admissions or high school grades.

That proof can include information like hospital admission forms, radiology test results, doctor's notes, and similar data.

Currently, police can only demand a breathalyzer test if they have «reasonable suspicion» a driver is impaired, based on signs like slurred speech, the smell of alcohol or the admission of drinking.

Ensure factors like your GPA, test scores, application essay and academic goals align with the schools you have in mind; this increases your chances of being granted admission and making your application fees well spent.

Like the GRE or GMAT, applicants to advanced dentistry programs must pass the American Dental Association's Dental Admissions Test (DAT).

Have taught students from classes 9th to 12th (CBSE, IB, ICSE boards), competitive exams like CPT (CA entrance), CLAT (Common Law Admission Test), NTSE Maths Olympiad along with admissions to Kota's best institute and students preparing for the entrance exams of reputed schools like Mayo, Rishi Valley, Bishop Cotton, DPS, Birla etc..