Sentences with phrase «even get to college»

«But for a lot of the kids we serve here, those decisions get made for them before they even get to college, or even high school.»

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Some colleges and universities have created programs and even degrees with a focus on entrepreneurship, and while this conceptually is a step in the right direction, it's not offering the immersion that is so necessary in the start - up world to really get your feet wet and understand by doing.

Christian Borges, vice president of marketing for MRY, a New York - based social - media agency that got its start in the college space, adds that this domino - like reality makes it even more important to achieve brand recognition and adoption in the first place.

Even with black women graduating from college in record numbers, «not enough are coming out of the education system to get them all the way through to the C - suite,» says Burns.

In grammar school, in high school, in college, I almost never, ever raised my hand because I was afraid I was going to get called on — even if I knew the answer — and I was mortified that I wouldn't be able to get the words out.»

Borrowing by students and their families has picked up steam over the years as social and economic pressure grows to obtain a college education to get ahead, even as states reduce their financial support for colleges and colleges raise their tuition.

After I got out of the service I went to world famous Los Angeles City College and like I came down here and I was going to Los Angeles City College and someone suggested I go to an acting class in the evening and I said I don't know about that.

My goal at age 44 is to get in the best shape of my life, even better than when I was a college athlete.

I dusted myself off, gritted my teeth and got through college, even though it would have been easier to quit.

Let's face it, your parents didn't teach you how to get rich and the schools and colleges don't even talk about it.

So even though they get less financial help from their families, women still have fewer loans to repay after college.

And these numbers are expected to get even worse during the second quarter, where the drop of TV subscribers often accelerates due to college kids heading home for the summer (often without reconnecting when they return in the fall).

I get confused about what excellence can mean from institution to institution, given the American practice of grading colleges; even the much less than superlative schools claim to be excellent.

The college diploma feels worth as much as your high school degree now, with the new tension of feeling like you have to now get a master's or Ph.D. to even be allowed into the game.

And yet, as I progressed through high school and college, got a job in full - time student ministry, and even traveled through Europe for a few weeks, checking each of these dreams off my list (sans Aussie heartthrob), I found myself at age twenty - four absorbed in feelings that I didn't expect to come for at least another fifteen years, if ever.

Despite the withering contempt of experts and allies alike — even the architectural critic Lewis Mumford, letting his unfortunate susceptibility to vanity get the better of him, could not resist dismissing Death and Life as a «preposterous mass of historic misinformation and contemporary misinterpretation» assembled by «a sloppy novice» — this unaccredited journalist - mother, with no college education, no training in planning, and no institutional support, wrote a book that would change the way the world thinks about cities.

When it starts getting into science however and they choose not to teach facts about science, I'd be hardpressed to believe that a student who was seriously looking to go into medicine would choose a place that doesn't teach it correctly, and even more, I don't think many hospital would want students from a college that didn't teach medicine.

Moreover, the even - handedness of the GI Bill enabled West's father and many of his peers to buy a home, get a college education and obtain health insurance — all of which gave economic mobility to African - Americans even under segregation.

Now and then they have been able to worm their way onto a TV or radio talk show, or to air their views in courtrooms and publicity stunts, or to place ads (and sometimes even get reviews) in college newspapers and professional historical journals.

I guess they were either too stupid to realize it was a Catholic school, or too stupid to get into even a crappy non-Catholic college.

I am sorry that Steve got no answers in Sunday school and even worse that, according to him, Spurgeon's college, where he trained, were unable to help.

Although I had been in the church since I was 16 years old and read and studied the Bible ever since; even though I had gone to bible college and seminary and university to get my several degrees; even though I have been preaching and teaching in the church for all this time, I felt deep down that something was missing.

I have a 17 year old niece who is not planning to be her for her high school graduation and is not planning to go to college even though she got all sorts of scholarships and grants to go play soccer at a small private college.

I also had a similar experience when I got out of college, though... all of my friends were no longer in the same place, and even though I met a few friends back when I worked in insurance, it's still super hard to meet people.

I was getting all flabbergasted and sweaty because gosh it's so embarrassing when you don't know what they're saying and it brought back horrific memories of when I was still in college and interviewing an international student and when she asked me a question I could not for the life of me understand, even after being repeated six times, to which I eventually just blurted out, «That's a really weird question,» just so we could move on.

Earlier this month, Emmert even said the Olympic model, allowing athletes to get paid from sponsorships (aka a third party), is «well deserving of serious consideration» in college sports.

Yet most athletic officials, even those who oppose it, regard Prop 42 as a well - intentioned effort to strike a balance between academic integrity and the need to provide an opportunity for the disadvantaged athlete who wants a degree and is willing to work hard to get it — a kid like John Thompson was as a high school senior in Washington, D.C. Thompson says he could not have gone to college under Prop 42, but he's careful not to paint Proposition 42 in racial terms.

Josh Rosen continues to get hammered, and some even thought by his former college head coach, Jim Mora, about his personality and off the field interests.

This year, I brought my sister so that she too could learn from all of the expert panels that have topics ranging from «Life of a College Student - Athlete» to «Sports Science and Player Tracking Data» and even «Silver asks Silver» (one of my favorites because I got to hear Adam Silver's vision first - hand).

«There was something about him that told me to take a chance and get him when we did,» says Gillick, who selected Ainge in the 15th round of the 1977 amateur draft, even though Ainge had already committed himself to college basketball.

At Tracy, however, the players don't have to look far to find inspiration that someone can make it to the NFL without signing a letter of intent, going to a major college or even getting drafted.

When a freshman gets to a college team, all of a sudden an 18 - year old, maybe even a 17 - year old, is teammates and sharing a locker room with 21, 22, maybe even a 23 - year old.

«Former college players were there, so it was hard to get into a game,» says Linehan, who even now stands only 5» 9» as a senior guard at Providence.

Even with the NBA still floundering with their bid to keep the season alive, there is a lot of sports action in college sports — with big rivalries in college football as the season winds down — and college basketball getting revved up.

Being a major college football does seem to have its perks, even if they aren't getting paid.

Peer pressure can be dangerous, in a lot of ways, and though getting shin splints might seem a lot less of a risk than trying to drive buzzed or going to that college party, they can turn into a serious and even life - long condition.

SANDESTIN, Fla. — Alabama football coach Nick Saban has no desire to get into a verbal spat with Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh, or even a Twitter spat (besides, Saban doesn't tweet), but Alabama's head coach stood his ground Wednesday on why he thinks satellite camps are bad for college football.

The cats were NOT my idea but my, at the time, roommate desperately wanted cats and I do love cats so I said that even though I thought it was a bad idea getting pets as a 21 year old college student in an apartment if she wanted to get a cat I wouldn't mind.

Team sports are a great way for your teen to get out of the house, get moving, make friends, and even get a scholarship to college.

Cheating in college could get your teen expelled and cheating at a future job could get them fired or it could even lead to legal action.

«And success is defined as getting into a good college, even if you don't know what you want to do there.»

Granted we were talking to high achieving schools and we were doing the survey in school, but even given that, the top answers were homework, tests, grades and competition to get into colleges.

It seemed, however, that we were getting more and more marketing as my college time wore on, and I only wonder why they bothered, since we were a captive audience who couldn't afford to go out for pizza every night even if we wanted to.

That evening, I got away from politics entirely to join my girlfriend (a Texan) at a barbecue restaurant in Tower Hill to watch the College Football National Championship game between her beloved Texas Longhorns and the University of Alabama.

* What happens to some students with the grades to now get into a SUNY college as they face stiffer competition for admission even to so - called «safety schools» by students who now might choose to go to a private college?

The driving force for each candidate buckles down to: Affordable health care, free and reduced college and even serving the working class, as well as, for those students in attendance who put on these events, they say it's important to get to know their potential representative on a personal level.

Lancman and Avella said they will push legislation in Albany to reform the voting process, including allowing college students to be election inspectors even if they do not live in Queens, which is currently mandated, in order to get younger people who are more adept at technology working in elections.

And even if they could get enough electors to give the election to Hillary Clinton, the Republican controlled House of Representatives votes to accept or reject the report of the electoral college.

Even though child care costs more than college tuition in many states, college affordability seems to get more attention.

«Our computer simulations suggest that even if only 22 percent of the reserve's young people relocate as a result of attending college, getting married, or taking outside jobs, the human population in the reserve would be reduced to about 700 by the year 2047, and the giant panda habitat would recover and then increase by 7 percent,» says Jianguo Liu of Michigan State University, the lead author of the study.