Sentences with phrase «admit students with»

Thus, many legal employers favor highly selective law schools on the theory that these schools only admit students with high LSAT scores and strong undergraduate GPAs.

For - profit schools have more motivation to admit students with low income earning potential.

Critics also argue private schools are not obligated to admit students with learning or physical disabilities or administer and report standardized test results.

«Federal law requires all taxpayer - supported schools to admit students with disabilities.

Second, refusing to admit students with other disabilities raises serious concerns under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, which forbid exclusion from a public entity such as a charter school based solely on a disability for individuals otherwise qualified to take part.

The Trump administration wants to invest in an unprecedented expansion of private - school vouchers and charter schools, prompting critics to worry that certain private or parochial schools might expel LGBT students or refuse to admit students with disabilities.

Admitted students with physical, learning, medical, psychiatric or other disabilities will want to investigate the availability of University and HGSE community resources that meet their needs, whether academic, residential or personal.

For more than a decade after its founding in 1985, the school actively sought to diversify its enrollment, even if that sometimes meant admitting students with lower test scores than others.

Founded on namesake Peter Cooper's belief that education should be available to all willing and qualified students regardless of their social status, Cooper Union has historically provided each admitted student with a «full tuition scholarship» since opening in 1859.

Bernier and Love's amended complaint alleges that InfiLaw and the Charlotte School of Law intentionally admitted students with bad grades and low or no LSAT scores, in order to maximize the number of people paying tuition as high as $ 41,000 a year (in 2015).

Professor Taylor attributes this development to many factors, including the need for lower - tiered schools to maintain revenue by (wittingly or unwittingly) using diversity to help accomplish this goal, as well as elite law schools using the economic downturn as an opportunity to focus more on admitting students with the highest LSAT scores.

The report acknowledges that LSAT scores are imperfect predictors, and that the risk presented by admitting a student with a low LSAT score might be offset by requiring that the student have a correspondingly strong undergraduate GPA.

Not exact matches

With a 1.7 high school grade point average and unable to get admitted to any degree - granting institution, Kalin faked an MIT student ID and then used a letter of recommendation from a professor he met there to get himself admitted to NYU.

Levin admitted that the company could build more features and tools for its students, such as better ways for them to connect with each other and with instructors.

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.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

It's back - to - school time for kids across the United States, and while having time with my own children this summer was truly wonderful, I am happy to admit that I am eager to see them get back to their own work of being students.

I must, however, admit at once that they are not conclusive, for at every point other students of the New Testament might disagree with my exegesis.

But what chaplain, campus minister, theological teacher, or YMCA campus worker — even with the most creative program possible — would ever admit that he was out to «evangelize» students — and, above all, faculty and administration?

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.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

(Although, as a life long student of history, social and political philosophy and jurisprudence, I must admit that I had long been enamored with the moral teachings of Jesus, and I suppose that I had always hoped that His Messianic claims were true.)

Dr. John Kildahl, a practicing New York psychoanalyst and an adjunct seminary instructor, believes that we in the seminaries have been admitting too many theological students with high dependency needs and with consequently sustained and often serious psychological problems.

Why, one student wondered, would a tradition so eager to emphasize Mary's suffering with Christ be hesitant to admit that she suffered in labor as well?

In spite of the fact that Socrates studied with all diligence to acquire a knowledge of human nature and to understand himself, and in spite of the fame accorded him through the centuries as one who beyond all other men had an insight into the human heart, he has himself admitted that the reason for his shrinking from reflection upon the nature of such beings as Pegasus and the Gorgons was that he, the life - long student of human nature, had not yet been able to make up his mind whether he was a stranger monster than Typhon, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, partaking of something divine (Phaedrus, 229 E).

He argued that because athletes with lower academic scores are being admitted into better colleges than other students, the best colleges in the nation are not selecting and breeding top academics to compete with the rest of the world.

«I love celebrating with students when they come into my office with exciting news or they have just been admitted into the college of their dreams.

These included not allowing students with no religion to be admitted, if the school was undersubscribed — something the school has now changed; and having a «Catholic service criterion», which gives priority to parents who, for at least three years, have carried out activities including «Assisting in the Liturgy: for example by reading, singing in the choir or playing an instrument, altar serving, flower arranging.»

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

According to him, there was restriction to secondary school as only 567 government secondary schools and some another 100 plus private schools with most being boarding with limitation of students admitted and that is how come, government started the Community Day Senior High Schools to increase access to Secondary education.rainbowradio.comm

The argument is that students admitted with lower grades would have the potential to perform on a par with their better accredited peers.

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.

Jason E. Starr, Nassau County chapter director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, said he hopes the office's efforts will force the district to admit students in accordance with the law.

Millennium, which offers preference to students who live below Houston Street, admits only those with A averages, good attendance and top test scores.

It, frankly, is a disaster across the board and it's pretty rare when you get parents, you get students, you get school boards, and you get government officials lining up with teachers unions and others to say, «we just need to admit this is a abject failure,»» said Republican Congressmen Chris Collins.

It, frankly, is a disaster across the board and it's pretty rare when you get parents, you get students, you get school boards, and you get government officials lining up with teachers unions and others to say, «we just need to admit this is a abject failure,»» said Rep. Chris Collins, a Republican from western New York.

Candidates can already be admitted to this program with a bachelor's degree or, in the case of German medical students, after their «Physicum» and two semesters of advanced studies (Hauptstudium) in medicine.

The pedagogical approach of his HHMI - funded program is equally rare; rather than selecting research students with impeccable academic credentials, Warner's program admits only students with grade point averages between 2.5 and 3.0.

Horton says the interaction with the students is what she loves the most — she would never consider going back to the stressful world of research — but teaching, she admits, is in some ways even more stressful: «It's a different kind of day - to - day stress.

Students of human pathos may one day cherish the 16 - minute recording of me, with my 100 percent positive - feedback rating as an eBay purchaser, failing to make renowned physicist Steven Weinberg, who won a Nobel for unifying electromagnetism with the so - called weak force, admit that he can't explain how a magnet holds a dry - cleaning ticket to the door of a refrigerator.

In a survey, college students admitted to texting during funerals, in the shower, during sex and while using the toilet, according to Harrison, who worked with Jessica M. Salley, a graduate student, and Christine E. Bealing, an undergraduate student, both in psychology.

«The vast majority of students who are admitted with large racial preferences are talented people who are well equipped to succeed in higher education,» they continue (italics in original).

Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

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 admitted to the Certificate Program may also have an opportunity to participate in research projects with our faculty.

If a student approaches you after class with a question that you are not sure about, be honest, speak your truth, and admit that you don't know.

We admit academically qualified students with undergraduate degrees in fields other than nutrition or the related sciences.

That said, my yoga teacher encourages his students to do additional cardio and I must admit, I «m good about that in good weather... love to ride my bike... not so good in lousy weather, My success story with yoga begins after reaching my goal.

But, I suppose there are those moments in everyone's day, week, year, where you have to admit to your students what you don't know and embark on the exciting journey of discovering it with them.

But, I must admit that this month also marked some pretty awesome accomplishments — I won a small grant to push forward a Teaching & Learning initiative I've been trying to get off the ground, I was able to help my two new masters students submit their research proposals without their heads exploding, I got to collaborate with one of my very favorite vintage shops Word from the Bird, and finally started bringing to life a new dress that I've been creating in my head for months (which I'm really excited to make a reality).