Sentences with phrase «first college applications»

They were going to do something that many of their parents never got the chance to do: mail out their first college applications.

81.5 percent of graduating seniors participated in College Application Week activities and 66 percent of students completed their first college application during the week.

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Launching his career as an entrepreneur straight out of college, Lee's company was the first company in Arkansas to build mobile banking applications for small to medium - sized banks.

When everyone else is hiring tutors at the first sign of an A-minus and pushing their kids to pursue two or three extracurricular activities chosen with an eye toward bolstering their college application, to do otherwise is to go against the cultural norm.

The first in her family to apply to college, she said she has been buried in scholarship applications for weeks.

Nobody's going to ask on a college application when your child first walked or said «da - da.

First, today (Sept 2) is the last day New Yorkers can apply for an absentee ballot: if you know anyone who might need one (think college students), go to Turbovote and get moving on that application.

Gevorg Grigoryan, an assistant professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, and researchers from other institutions have built the first artificial transporter protein that carries individual atoms across membranes, opening the possibility of engineering a new class of smart molecules with applications in fields as wide ranging as nanotechnology and medicine.

There are many research applications for cloning in dogs, says Katrin Hinrichs, of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Texas A&M University, US, who was the first to clone a horse in the US.

«Our unique combination of great universities and first - class research hospitals, dovetailed with access to a critical mass of entrepreneurial talent and a diverse population, puts the capital at the heart of medical discovery and its application,» said Dermot Kelleher, vice president of health at Imperial College, in a press release.

The College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering («CNSE») of the University at Albany announced today that it is now accepting applications for admission to its groundbreaking undergraduate program, which represents the nation's first comprehensive baccalaureate curriculum in Nanoscale Science.

She copes with the stress of her first heartbreak, a high school play, losing a best friend and finding a new one, and struggling with college applications — and Gerwig captures the essence of being a teenager before cell phones became essential accessories.

Many University Park students are the first in their families to go to college and don't have experience with the college application process.

If students are feeling especially burnt out and nervous about college applications, O'Brien says, help them consider and explore alternative routes to a four - year college: taking a gap year, or first taking classes at a community college.

The first five Research Schools, appointed following a competitive application process, are: - Aspirer Teaching School Alliance, based at Ash Grove Academy, Macclesfield - Huntington School, York - Kingsbridge Community College, Devon - Kyra Teaching School Alliance, based at Mount Street Academy, Lincoln - Shireland Collegiate Academy, Sandwell

«For some students — especially first - generation students going to college — they may not have the vocabulary and skills to start the college application process,» says McCombs.

Screencasting was first used in ICT teaching at Costello Technology College to explain how to use software applications the students had not encountered before.

«Navigating the college application process can be daunting, especially when you're the first in your family to consider secondary education,» said Brandy Johnson, Michigan College Access Network executive dicollege application process can be daunting, especially when you're the first in your family to consider secondary education,» said Brandy Johnson, Michigan College Access Network executive diCollege Access Network executive director.

First, school counselors are now required to advise homeless students on college application and preparedness.

Witnessing the difficulties her eighth - graders were experiencing with their high school applications, Stephanie joined Bottom Line NY as a college access counselor where she provided first - generation, low - income high school seniors with guidance through the college application and financial aid processes.

«As a first generation college student, I realized navigating financial aid and the college application process is overwhelming.

On December 5th, 2014, First Lady Michelle Obama visited with high school seniors at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington, D.C., and cheered them on as they made their College March, dropping college applications in the mail amidst cheering friends, family, peers, and members of the comCollege March, dropping college applications in the mail amidst cheering friends, family, peers, and members of the comcollege applications in the mail amidst cheering friends, family, peers, and members of the community.

The Hispanic Federation is offering a day of workshops that will focus on the college application process, financial aid, and completing FAFSA and TAP for first - generation college attendants and their families.

Many parents learned for the first time that financial aid resources are available to help students go to college or university, but financial aid application deadlines can not be missed.

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Each school and lender has its own policies, but you can usually return excess money to the original provider within the first 30 days, said Zack Perkins, co-founder of CollegeVine, an online mentorship and college applications guidance company.

The first step for any teenager entering college is to fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FASFA.

The FAFSA, which is the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, is the first document any potential college student should complete.

She worked hard to make that dream a reality: taking AP classes in High School, attending the summer college program at Harvard University, Graduating Magna Cumme Laude from LMU with a BS in biology in only three years and then being accepted to UC Davis Veterinary School on her first application.

(Boyce was rejected on his first application to the college; so was last year's winner, Glaswegian Susan Philipsz, who studied in Dundee instead.)

He went to the Leeds College of Art and Design, although he was rejected on his first application.

The arbitration board concluded that the College's primary responsibility was to pay the premiums for the insurance and the Collective Agreement did not require automatic registration of partial load employees into the plan; rather since participation in the plan was subject to application procedures, employees first had to fill out an application form before being enrolled.

In Manoukian, an Ontario court upheld a decision of a discipline committee dismissing a reinstatement application of a former member whose membership with an Ontario college had been twice previously revoked, first in 1983 after the applicant pleaded guilty to trafficking a narcotic (oxycodone), and after his reinstatement in 1989, again in 1996, after he was convicted for fraud over $ 1,000 involving false claims to the Ontario Drug Benefit Plan.

Before these prices even have a chance to eat into the budget of a family saving for college, there are some other major expenses to contend with first: namely, college application costs.

Burdan himself was once a recruiter and admits that checking on college dates is the first thing he'd do when reviewing an application.

Rasmussen College will reimburse the application fee for each first attempt of all of the industry certification exams for which you qualify to take.

When I first started looking for jobs out of college, I thought that I could draft my resume, take it to the career lab (or send it to my friend) for review, and start sending it out with my applications.