Sentences with phrase «effect on admissions»

The answers to these questions have no effect on admissions or enrollment decisions.

A 2005 Sociology of Education study called «The Frog Pond Revisited: High School Academic Context, Class Rank and Elite College Admission,» suggests that when you control for scholastic ability, attending a school surrounded by fellow academic superstars actually has a negative effect on your admissions chances at an elite college.

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That masterful admission came from the executive editor of The New York Times, Dean Baquet, concerning journalists» inability to report on the effects of faith on the voters of the 2016 election.

«While Mobil Oil Australia does not accept that its previous subscription, or the subscription of others, to the Oil PriceWatch service had any adverse effect on competition n any relevant market in Australia, Mobil Oil Australia has voluntarily and without admission offered to provide this Undertaking to address the concerns raised by the ACCC.»

Chicago residents may get a $ 2 break on new Art Institute of Chicago admission fees set to take effect May 23.

Following public pressure from the City Council, the Chicago Park District on Wednesday agreed to cut an admission fee increase for Chicago residents at the Art Institute of Chicago that was scheduled to take effect May 23.

There were no differences between groups in the gestational age at randomization, time to uterine quiescence, time on study drug, length of hospitalization, days from randomization to delivery, incidence of side effects, or admissions to the neonatal intensive care unit.

In November 2011, the Ministry of Justice confirmed that an order had come into effect bringing the university admissions body UCAS, the FOS and ACPO under the scope of the FoI on the basis that they all perform functions of a public nature.

Mr Jack said: «This demonstrates the difficulty caused by admitting evidence of proceedings in parliament: either the admission is on such a wide basis that it has a chilling effect on parliamentary proceedings (by prejudicing or effectively removing the right of free speech), or it is on such a narrow basis that the fairness of trials is put at risk.»

[42] He cited the toll suffered as a result of admissions about his private life and the effects on his family.

The conference has expressed its disappointment with the effect the policy is having on admissions in private schools, with reports that enrollment of first - years has dropped significantly.

And they looked at official data on traffic injuries and hospital admissions to see if the scheme had any noticeable effects on personal safety.

It examined the effect of hospital admission day on death rates across NHS England hospitals for 2013 - 2014.

Effect of zinc supplementation on incidence of infections and hospital admissions in sickle cell disease (SCD).

The Tracy boys don't even make an appearance for the first 20 minutes, which is a telling admission about the real stars of the show: those fabulous vehicles and the awe of the miniature effects execution (which was a major influence on the work done on 2001: A Space Odyssey).

These studies show, consistently, that parental schools of choice not controlled by public school districts 1) are usually prohibited by law from screening out students based on admission exams, 2) use ability tracking less frequently than traditional public schools even when, legally, they can, and 3) may use ability tracking, but when they do, it is less likely to have a negative effect on the achievement of low - track students.

We focus on spring 2014, the program's first semester, to exploit a one - time admissions practice that makes it possible to study the causal effect of being admitted.

The effects of high - stakes testing programs on outcomes such as retention, graduation, and admission into academic programs are different from the results of using grades alone.

Although this analysis does not consider the possibility that a greater concentration of high - risk students could have adverse effects on other students, it nonetheless highlights the likely beneficial consequences of giving preference to disadvantaged students in the admissions process for oversubscribed schools.

And I was most struck not by the effect this had on current seniors, but instead by the clusters of younger students who marveled at those admissions walls.

However, automatic admission has little effect on overall college enrollment or on the quality of the schools students in the top 10 percent attend.

Recently, Koretz directed studies exploring the assessment of students with disabilities, analyzing the variability of performance in mathematics in the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), and exploring the effects on diversity of alternative college admissions policies.

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.

It is nonetheless plausible that the lack of effects on college selectivity that we find may hold in higher - income districts as well, since students in these districts who fall just shy of the top 10 percent likely face fewer informational and financial barriers to enrolling in high - quality colleges absent an automatic admissions guarantee than do students in our sample.

The effects on flagship enrollment are only observed in high schools that send many of their graduates to college, suggesting that automatic admission may have little effect on the college choices of students in the state's most - disadvantaged schools.

Requests for financial aid have no effect on an applicant's prospects for admission.

Given challenges to affirmative action, we need to know how the admissions process works, the role of tests in admissions decisions, and the effects of alternative definitions of diversity on the composition of the admitted student body.

Perhaps more importantly, a nearly identical effect is seen on the math portion of the ACT (taken in the spring of 11th grade), with double - dose algebra raising scores by 0.15 standard deviations on an exam used by many colleges as part of the admissions process.

Parents, educators and college administrators have long wrestled with the unintended negative side effects of the admissions process, like the intense focus on personal achievement and the unfair advantages of more affluent students.

But the study authors said, winning the admission lottery had «no effect on college readiness in math or other types of high school diplomas that students received.»

This would severely limit admissions gaming by some schools and curb the effects of «gentrification» on the intakes of successful schools serving challenging areas.

Admissions officers at independent schools have remarkable effects on their institutions.

Exploiting the lottery - based admissions process of one technology - focused academy, we then estimate causal effects of participation in a career academy on high school attendance, achievement, and graduation, as well as college - going.

We use admissions lotteries to estimate effects of attendance at Boston's charter high schools on college preparation and enrollment.

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Rawls drew attention to another part of the report about the effect of cosmic rays on global warming, saying in a statement that «admission of strong evidence for enhanced solar forcing changes everything.»

Perhaps also a tacit admission that upstart Avvo is having an effect on LexisNexis strategy?

87 Notwithstanding the serious nature of the charges in this case, because of the serious and flagrant nature of the breach involved, in my view, the admission of the evidence would have a far greater effect on bringing the administration of justice into disrepute than its exclusion.

Further, under the bad character provisions of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 there is also a strong case for the admission of the findings of care proceedings under «reprehensible conduct» in s 106 (2), although the court «must not admit» it if it would have an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial — rather than the «may not admit» it under s 78.

As for the criminal courts, it is for them to decide whether to admit / exclude evidence subject to their discretion under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE 1984), s 78, and to exclude it if in all the circumstances — including the circumstances in which the evidence was obtained — the admission would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings.

Youth court judges have a greater awareness than appellate judges do of the effect that admission or exclusion of the evidence would have on the reputation of the administration of justice in the community with which they deal on a daily basis.

He described... «the general power of the judge (which existed at common law and is enshrined in section 78 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984) to exclude any evidence relied on by the Crown... if its admission would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the trial that it ought not to be admitted».»

(iii) A court was not bound to conclude that the admission of the evidence would have such an adverse effect on the fairness of the proceedings that the court ought not to admit it (under s 101 (3)-RRB-.

The question, therefore, arises as to whether such effects on children's development and adjustment are the result of institutional upbringing per se, or of previous adverse experiences in the family which led to admission to group care.

Recent reviews have failed to demonstrate any effect on reducing repetition of self - harm among adolescents receiving a range of treatment approaches including therapeutic assessments and compliance enhancement in hospitals, youth - nominated support teams, tokens for hospital admission and home and family - focused interventions [19, 20].

To separate the effects of the short - term stress of a marital conflict from the long - term strains of marital discord on local and systemic proinflammatory cytokine production as well as wound healing, couples were recruited for two 24 - hour admissions to our General Clinical Research Center (GCRC).

Accordingly, because our interest was in the effects of recurring or customary hostility, we categorized couples who were higher than the median on hostile behaviors at both GCRC admissions as high hostile (28.6 % of the sample) and the remainder as low hostile; thus, a couple was not classified as hostile simply because they had 1 bad day.