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.
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.
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.
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.
«Federal law requires all taxpayer - supported schools to
admit students with disabilities.
Critics also argue private schools are not obligated to
admit students with learning or physical disabilities or administer and report standardized test results.
For - profit schools have more motivation to
admit students with low income earning potential.
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).
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.
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.
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).