Sentences with phrase «graduates going to college»

The schools are extraordinarily high - achieving, with 93 percent of graduates going to college.

In the United States, we graduate fewer students from high school, but nearly two - thirds of those we graduate go to college.

For years, pioneering charter school networks like KIPP, YES Prep, and others won legions of admirers by ensuring that nearly every student they graduated went to college, usually the first in their families to do so.

And whereas just over half of the high school's graduates go to college, 80 to 90 percent of Walden grads do.

High schools are interested in finding out what percent of their graduates go to college.

KIPP's eighth - grade graduates go to college at twice the national rate for low - income students, according to its own tracking.

Although Vermont's graduation rate — 88 percent of high school students graduate in four years — is well above the national average, only 52 percent of graduates went to college in 2013.

Not exact matches

He graduated from Ithaca College in 1973 and promptly went to work as a weatherman for a local news station.

The son of a psychoanalyst and a sociologist, Bilinkis grew up in Buenos Aires, went to a prestigious private college on a scholarship, and graduated at the top of his class.

Thanks to half a dozen colleges minting tech - savvy graduates, several incubators protecting fledgling companies until they're ready to go out on their own and an impressive roster of angel investors and venture capitalists, the city is officially a start - up hub.

Part of that decline has been due to difficult economic conditions after the financial crisis of 2008, but part of it is also due to simple demographics: The baby boomers are hitting retirement age, and young people are more likely to go to college or graduate school, meaning that fewer people will want to work.

It's one of the first steps in the company's signature «Bootcamp,» a six - week introduction to Facebook that all engineers — from new college graduates to coding veterans — must go through.

«For women who were graduating from business schools and colleges, [finance] was not an inviting place to go work.»

I went back to school, gutted my way through and eventually graduated from college.

In Germany, 97 percent of students graduate from high school, but only a third of these students go on to college.

One of the reasons why people choose to go to work in Arkansas after they graduate college is the overall cost of living.

I graduated from high school and went on to college for business.

[3] Upon graduating in 2010, Gardner went on to study political strategy at Bard College where he was apart of several student - activity committees as and was an avid Ultimate Frisbee player.

But her recent clients, a newlywed couple who had recently graduated from college, were able to go under contract for a bargain $ 130,000 townhouse that needed a lot of work, said Rosario.

After college Ashley worked at EngagementHealth, a corporate wellness company, for four years prior to going back to graduate school.

Alternatively, military service can enable you to get a free college degree, have a job lined up when you graduate, and make money while you go to school.

It is bad enough that our media menus are now so segregated, but the possibility of an America fifty - years from now where the most natural question posed to a graduate would be «Did you go to one of the Old Blue colleges, or to one of the Upstart Red ones?»

My college years were a lot different than yours; my first full - time job as a graduate is unusual; my season of singleness isn't going to be like everyone else's.

@ Jon, did you even go to college, did you graduate from high school?

The data on charter - school performance is perhaps mixed, but a half century of research proves, as Ravitch acknowledges, that «minority children in Catholic schools are more likely to take advanced courses than their peers in public schools, more likely to go to college, and more likely to continue on to graduate school.»

«Many people will go to this film and enjoy it,» expressed Dr. Johnson, who holds a Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and has taught a Cinematic Theology course at the undergraduate level in college, as well as a course on the Theology of Movies and Visual Media at the graduate level in seminary.

Their children graduate from institutions like Ohio State University and fall in line with what they see as the norm: going to college, getting married, having kids.

Also consider that the guy I know went to Bible college, trained to be a pastor, and has never had another job since he graduated from college.

He graduated from college, drives a car, goes out with girls, has plans to go to graduate school.

I graduated and went to work in Lancashire before returning to Imperial College to do research for a doctorate.

Cristina, It depends on the college but most people with any scientific background wouldn't take a graduate seriously who had chosen to go to a college that denied evolution.

My gay child has a strong father, a two parent household, a upper middle class income, both college graduates, went to church, had a supportive family life, engaged in sports, school activities and I think someone needs to teach you about what the real Jesus would have done.

Consider this... a person goes to college, gets a four year degree in archaeology (or some antiquities preservation analog); spends summers sifting through sand and rock and gravel, all the while taking graduate level classes... person eventually obtains the vaunted PhD in archaeology... then works his / her tail off seeking funding for an archeological excavation, with the payoff being more funding, and more opportunities to dig in the dirt... do you think professional archaeologists are looking hard for evidence of the Exodus on a speculative basis... not a chance... they know their PhD buys them nothing more than a job at Tel Aviv Walmart if they don't discover and publish... so they write grants for digs near established sites / communities, and stay employed sifting rock in culturally safe areas... not unless some shepard stumbles upon a rare find in an unexpected place do you get archeological interest and action in remote places... not at all surprising that the pottery and other evidence of the Exodus and other biblical events lie waiting to be discovered... doesn't mean not there... just not found yet...

Or Shayne Moore, a Wheaton College graduate and suburban mom of three who went to hear Bono speak at Wheaton's Edman Chapel one evening and was forever changed to make a difference in the battle against HIV and AIDS.

A scholar - theologian who once taught on a theological faculty and later went to a department of religion in a secular university has written poignantly about his pilgrimage through the kind of identity crises I have just described: one who in college had a kind of neo-fundamentalist faith, went through graduate school, established peer relationships with scholars, and then found himself in a crisis of belief, now speaks about the morality of belief — the importance of being true and honest in what one can actually avow and affirm with integrity.

As a recent college graduate, I am not used to waking up at 7 a.m. every morning and going to work.

As their children graduated from high school and went to college or started working, as parents aged and retired, the neighborhood changed.

When my brother and I graduated college, we started going to major food shows, and we gained national accounts and signed with national distributors.»

«Left to my own devices, I would probably go through a bottle of Aardvark every other day,» says Lillian Karabaic, a 26 - year - old Reed College graduate who works as a database administrator in Portland.

They recently went back to Korea after my brother graduated from college.

After starting out at a high - end grocery store at the ripe age of 11, Goldman went on to work in pizza shops, major in hotel and restaurant management at the University of Delaware, and become a partner at Italian Bistro, a concept with a smattering of locations across the Philadelphia area — all before graduating from college.

After graduating from Newbury College, the Chelmsford native went on to stints at the Boston Harbor Hotel, the Bay Tower Room, and Mistral.

Only 57 percent of Douglass students graduate in four years, and only 20 percent go on to college.

Jerry Seinfeld was the graduation keynote speaker where I went to college, 1 or 3 years before I graduated (don't remember which).

I did not see a college football game until I went to Harvard as a graduate student after World War II.

Oldfield went on a couple of international track tours in college, but after finally graduating in 1969 he went back to Elgin, to gambling and to bouncing at a local bar, The Lottery.

Today he explains it this way, «I didn't want to be just another college athlege with nowhere to go after he graduated....

(Of the 20 or so kids who graduate every year, all but two or three go to Israel and study in a yeshiva for at least a year before starting college in the U.S.) On Tuesday morning the rabbis tell Katz they want the home game against Capital Christian, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. that day, to be moved up an hour, before school lets out, to keep the crowds smaller.

My son has just graduated from high school and will be going to a local college in the fall.

6 months after we were in the relationship he got a job in a supermarket as security guard, but here in my country that does nt really makes a lot, its like almost $ 300 dollars per month, i make 600 up to 800 per month, by taking calls in a call center, he never went to college he only graduated highschool, im in law school right now... from the very beginning since i knew he did nt have a job or was making money he could spend, if i had money i would invite him out to dinner, or to the movies or whatever and it was me paying for it which i did nt mind, he is not the kind of men who buys flower, or invite u to the movies, or out, he rather visit me at home and watch a movie in netflix and thats it, we have made plans to go out, but none of them works out, something always happen, and the day it may happen, i say no, just because i think i will have to pay for the date..