Sentences with phrase «for college acceptance»

For most students, the two biggest factors when it comes to grades are potential for scholarship awards and potential for college acceptance.

The PreK - 12 UChicago Charter School is designed to cultivate culturally aware critical thinkers and leaders, and prepare all of its students for college acceptance and graduation.

From the start of my freshman year, I promised myself that I would never sacrifice my creativity and character for a college acceptance letter.

To all the students here tonight: stay true to yourself and don't stretch yourself too thin for a college acceptance.

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This Christian college in Missouri has a lower acceptance rate than Cornell, the Ivy with the highest acceptance rate, and requires students to show financial need for admission.

The acceptance rate of less than 2 percent is lower than Harvard College's 5.9 percent for the coming year's freshman class.

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

«The Soulforce 2008 Equality Ride, a nationwide bus tour that promotes acceptance for gays and lesbians on Christian college campuses, will start this year's tour with a Wednesday visit to...

We're approaching the time of year when high school seniors start getting acceptance letters from colleges and universities, a nerve - wracking time for sure.

As surely as winter melts into spring and Uncle Sam demands his yearly tribute, we start worrying about end of semester tests, registration deadlines for the «right» summer camps and the arrival of college acceptance (or, heaven forbid, rejection) letters.

MIAMI — David Hogg, a survivor of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, on Friday rejected an apology from Fox News host Laura Ingraham for her tweet mocking his college acceptance record.

Using the principles of mindfulness, I presents a guide to healthy eating and self acceptance that will help readers navigate the weight obsessed, diet crazed, high pressured, fast food saturated college environment, establishing patterns of eating that will form the groundwork for a healthier life well beyond college.

Shit really hits the fan for Cat when her angry ex-boyfriend leaks these boudoir photos of her to everyone in the entire town and the all over the internet getting her acceptance to college revoked.

Life - changing events for this protagonist (her father losing his job, acceptance into college, the loss of her virginity) bump up against funnier, more inconsequential ones; it's one of the most authentic depictions of that tumultuous period on the cusp of adulthood I've ever seen in a film.

Another idea for entrepreneurs: build a web site where students or their parents can enter their test scores themselves, and provide a prediction for the types of colleges where they are likely to gain acceptance.

For years, a central motif of No Excuses schools has been their college acceptance rates.

Saint Benedict's Preparatory School, a high school in Newark, New Jersey, run by the Benedictine monks of Newark Abbey, has recorded a near 100 percent college - acceptance rate for their predominantly African American and Latino young men — a rate that soars well above the average for the city.

By June 2006, Match had graduated three classes, and every student from the classes of 2004, 2005, and 2006 was accepted for admission by a four - year college or university (an average of three acceptances per student), including Boston College, Brown, Duke, Georgetown, Hofstra, Howard, Northeastern, Spelman College, and Trinity Ccollege or university (an average of three acceptances per student), including Boston College, Brown, Duke, Georgetown, Hofstra, Howard, Northeastern, Spelman College, and Trinity CCollege, Brown, Duke, Georgetown, Hofstra, Howard, Northeastern, Spelman College, and Trinity CCollege, and Trinity CollegeCollege.

Teens are well versed in social media, and now they are able to leverage a platform designed specifically for professional adults to grease the path to college acceptance.

As college acceptance rates decline, more people will need alternatives for learning career - essential skills, and we believe Py will be a big part of that.

Darling - Hammond, who has worked with the consortium for more than a decade, points to member schools» high college acceptance rate compared with that of all New York City schools (91 percent versus 62 percent) as a testament to their rigorous curriculum and assessment.

In the years since, we've opened two additional schools, launched additional programs to support students» success beyond high school, and achieved a 100 % college acceptance rate for our graduates.

Based on my observations, the lives of the high school students I teach are hemmed in everywhere by social pressures and expectations: high - stakes testing, the looming shadow of college admissions, the fiercely competitive school system, the painful process of figuring out who you are, and the ubiquitous desire for peer acceptance.

Today, HCZ reports that it currently has 913 HCZ students in college and boasts a 93 percent college acceptance rate from its programs for 2015.

Democracy Prep's results are incomparable: 100 percent of graduates are college - bound (two college acceptances are required for graduation); 95 percent pass the Regents exams; and the schools are leaders in urban charter turnaround (with Harlem Prep skyrocketing from the third to the 96th percentile from one school year to the next).

Parents consider a school's course offerings, teacher skills, school discipline, safety, student respect for teachers, the inculcation of moral values and religious traditions, class size, teacher - parent relations, college acceptance rates, and more.

In his time as principal, the HOPE team increased their student's ACT average to outperform the city, state and national averages for African - American students and achieved 100 % college acceptance in each of those three years (a first in the city of Milwaukee).

For the last two years, HOPE has had a 100 percent college acceptance rate.

Across all four UChicago Charter campuses spanning grades Pre-K to 12, leaders, teachers, staff, parents, and students have worked diligently to instill a college - graduating culture, preparing and supporting alumni not only for acceptance to college, but cultivating the academic mindsets and creating the supports needed to persist through to college completion.

Ask for teacher and school ratings to connect to other metrics like college acceptance, AP completion / pass rates, or student engagement.

Torres is responsible for promoting a college going culture that ensures UChicago Charter graduates receive the support that they need to meet the school's goal for 100 % college acceptance and graduation.

Our strong results in college - readiness, achievement measures, and other areas show we are on our path to fulfilling our mission — 100 % acceptance to and graduation from college for all students on our PreK - 12 superhighway.

The number of students both applying for earning acceptance to college has dramatically increased.

The State Board of Education may adopt rules that, for purposes of demonstrating completion of specific certification requirements, allow for the acceptance of college course credits recommended by the American Council for Education (ACE), as posted on an official ACE transcript.

HOPE Christian High School's graduating seniors have achieved 100 percent college acceptance for six years in a row.

With 72 percent of Uplift scholars qualifying for free and reduced lunch, we know that 100 percent college acceptance is not enough.

In this role, he leverages strategic community, district, and cross-network charter partnerships to increase proficiency, graduation, and college acceptance rates for students of color, while focusing on reversing the under - representation of minorities in STEM - related fields.

Accelerated learning, which enables high school students to earn credit for college classes, is credited with increasing the rigor of STEM classes, increasing teacher quality for all courses taught by AP — trained educators, increasing college acceptance and completion, and reducing remediation and college tuition costs.

For the past 10 years, City School's graduating seniors have boasted a 100 % college acceptance rate.

Another reason the new goal has drawn so little attention is the common acceptance that students and the colleges they attend — not the students» high schools, or even middle schools, in some cases — are responsible for whether those students earn college degrees.

As part of the Better Make Room campaign, the day serves as a reminder that college acceptance is possible for all students; provides an inspiration for younger students to get on the college - ready track; and highlights the daily efforts of students, teachers, and school counselors to prepare graduates for their futures.

Charter schools are raising the bar on student achievement for schools across Illinois by improving test scores, graduating more students from high school, and increasing college acceptance and persistence rates for all Illinois students.

This time, the explanation for the 100 % college acceptance rate was, in the words of one teacher at the school: «smoke and mirrors.»

They have met with apprenticeship coordinators and have determined that Mastbaum students are not being effectively prepared for their trade apprenticeships or for regular college acceptance.

Well, we took these «unfit» students and had a 97 percent graduation rate and 100 percent college acceptance rate for them.

Reason for despair: The continued tacit acceptance of deep racial and social segregation across most of our school system, from prekindergarten through colleges and grad schools.

College acceptance letters have been trickling in, the reward for four years of long school days, high expectations and intense academic rigor — including a lot of Latin.

Thank you in advance for supporting and encouraging your students as they pursue acceptance to a four - year college!

Providing college preparation programs that guide students in required high school coursework for acceptance into a state university or community college

Aspire was founded on the mission to prepare all students for college, and based upon students» yearly academic performance and college acceptance rates, Aspire appears to fulfill its stated purpose.