Sentences with phrase «high admission rates»

Based on my experience, schools in New Jersey get blue ribbons for their rates of graduation and, especially, for high admission rates to higher education.

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Such borrowers will face higher mortgage rates, but they might view them as the price of admission to lucrative property markets that seem almost impervious to corrections.

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.

In any case, inquire about recommends that a higher protein admission can help ensure against muscle misfortune and keep your metabolic rate up (15, 17, 19).

This study, a cohort study of severe morbidity and mortality of term fetuses or neonates, called ATNICID (Admission of Term Neonates to Intensive Care or Intrauterine Death), was begun in 2007 with the express intent of examining the relationship between the organization of the Dutch maternity care system and the high rate of perinatal mortality.

Out - of - hospital births were also associated with a higher rate of unassisted vaginal delivery and lower rates of obstetrical interventions and NICU admission than in - hospital births, findings that corroborate the results of earlier studies.3 - 5 These associations follow logically from the more conservative approach to intervention that characterizes the midwifery model of care8, 19 and from the fact that obstetrical interventions are either rare (e.g., induction of labor) 20 or unavailable (e.g., cesarean delivery, whether at home or at a birth center) outside the hospital setting.

Compared to women who slept in another position, the 21 women who reported either sleeping on their backs or «backs and sides», had higher rates of NICU admissions (36.8 % vs 15.2 %) and stillbirths (15.8 % vs 3.0 %), and were more likely to have given birth to an underweight baby (36.8 % vs 10.7 %).

23 Therefore, the higher rate of admission (or readmission if a hospital birth) among newborns in the planned home - birth group than of readmission in the planned hospital - birth group may have been linked to the need for treatment of hyper - bilirubinemia, which, among babies born in hospital, may require a longer stay in hospital rather than readmission.

The increased risk is primarily due to higher rates of ICU admission and blood transfusion.

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

We have ignored the abysmal rates of admission for Black and Latino students at specialized high schools for far too long.

The group that received the high dose vaccine had a 19.7 percent hospital admission rate versus 20.9 percent in admission for those who received the standard dose vaccine.

Hospital admission rates for assaults had been rising among teens before 2005, but were higher among this age group after the scheme's introduction.

Dr Sarah Purdy, who led the research, said: «GP Practices serving the most deprived populations have emergency admission rates that are around 60 per cent higher than those serving the least deprived populations.

Also, a study of hospital admissions in Wisconsin found that high air pollution emissions were associated with a 40 percent increase in the rate of bowel disease hospitalizations in 2002.

But Fursenko was blamed for the high rate of corruption in the university admissions process.

They found that hospitals in weakly regulated states reported substantially lower rates of hospital - acquired infections as well as higher rates of infections that were «present on admission.»

The authors note they can not say from their data whether the lower admission rates in 2007 or the higher rates seen more recently are closer to the correct rate.

Signe Sorup, Ph.D., of the Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues examined whether the live MMR vaccine was associated with lower rates of hospital admissions for infections among children in a higher - income setting (Denmark).

Rates of hospitalizations (65 percent vs 42 percent), ICU admissions (36 percent vs 15 percent), invasive procedures (51 percent vs 27 percent), and death in a hospital or nursing facility (74 percent vs 14 percent) were higher for nonhospice beneficiaries compared to hospice patients.

One study reported that states with medical marijuana dispensaries had higher rates of both marijuana and alcohol use, as well as higher admissions into alcohol treatment facilities.

Dr John Busby, lead author of the study, published in The British Journal of General Practice, said: «Admission rates for some of the conditions in our study, including alcoholism, schizophrenia and diabetes, were over three times higher in some practices than others.

Hospital admission rates are 55 per cent higher in some areas than in others because of a greater prevalence of conditions such as diabetes, alcoholism, dementia and socioeconomic deprivation.

A few of the included studies had done so and found, for example, that admission rates tend to be higher in males compared to females [42] and in mid-career compared to early career scientists [19], and that they tend to differ between disciplines [41], [53].

In fact I would rate the game higher if not for the fact that the «extended cut» DLC pretty much is an admission that the game was rushed out the door

In fact I would rate the game higher if not for the fact that the «extended cut» DLC pretty much is an admission that the game was rushed out the door without a completed ending.

A current study of 10 Linked Learning programs in California, for example, has so far found that students in these programs have dramatically lower dropout rates and slightly higher graduation rates, than the state as a whole, and are more likely to graduate with the courses required for admission to California's public universities.

Whether one looks at standardized test scores, at graduation rates, or at college admission test results, American high - school performance has hardly budged over the past three decades.

Between fall 2002 and fall 2008, the school district closed 23 large failing high schools (with graduation rates below 45 percent), opened 216 new small high schools (with different missions, structures, and student selection criteria), and implemented a centralized high school admissions process that assigns over 90 percent of the roughly 80,000 incoming ninth - graders each year based on their school preferences.

Although the college - sending rates of the highest - performing high schools in the sample are low relative to Texas as a whole, our findings suggest that offering eligibility for automatic admission may not be effective at accomplishing even the narrow goal of increasing access to the top public universities for students in the most - disadvantaged settings.

The test - refusal rate was also very low in New York City, where state tests factor into middle and high school admissions and gifted - and - talented placement.

Students who win admission by lottery and attend an HCZ school also have higher on - time graduation rates than their peers and are less likely to become teen parents or land in prison.

Even if some college admissions officers revert to racially biased assumptions in the absence of criminal history, explicit rejections appear to play a relatively small role at many institutions, compared to the high rates of application attrition resulting from paperwork burden, confusion and discouragement.

In under - resourced and struggling school districts across the country, too many students continue to fall below national benchmarks on reading and math and on school attendance, high school graduation and college admission rates.

In each, as well, the bottom - line goal is to help students become more engaged in and responsible for their own learning.Their formulas appear to be working, as they have achieved both higher graduation rates and percentages of college admissions than the average rates for the districts and states in which they are located.

Yet a number of the ways in which many (admittedly privileged) independent schools achieve their impressive learning outcomes - such as high standardized - test scores, strong graduation rates, and distinguished college admissions - are actually well within reach of public schools.

This week the University of California system released its admission and enrollment data for the Class of 2016, and of the top 20 schools in LA Unified with the highest UC acceptance rates, calculated by the School Data Nerd blog, more than half were independent charters.

While the Los Angeles Unified School District continues to drive toward higher and higher graduation rates, district data provided to The 74 and LA School Report show that more than half of last year's graduating seniors received grades that made them ineligible for admission into California's public universities.

Though their track record is good — with significantly higher graduation and college admission rates than similar students statewide — their future was in doubt without secure funding, even though the amount per school in state aid ($ 59,000, to support a coordinator's time and collaborative planning among Academy teachers) is not huge.

They believe that a uniform curriculum will lead to improved test scores and higher graduation and college admission rates while closing achievement gaps between minorities and whites.

Paul: To add to what Caryn is saying, there is research that indicates the rigor of a student's high school course selections strongly correlates to successful college completion rates — a much different metric than high school graduation or college admission rates.

With increasingly competitive admissions rates and seemingly boundless sticker prices on higher education, the college application cycle has come to instill fear in high school students and their families.

If you state that you have not had claims and something comes back on the CLUE report, you might actually be surcharged higher than if you had simply admitted the claim and been rated on it based on your admission.

Light blue dots denoting engineering, computer science, and math show the highest return on investment, even though the admission rates range from around 10 to almost 100 percent admission.

The Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) has announced figures that show under 10's accounting for the highest rate of admissions per age group for strikes and bites from dogs over the past 12 months.

The first reaction of many people is that Napa County's shelter can't achieve high live - release rates because it is «open admission,» accepting all animals that are brought in.

Other open admission shelters had even higher rates: placing 98 % -99 % of all animals.

The end result is that community cats are by far the greatest source of kitten births and of cat admissions to animal shelters, even when the higher mortality rate for community kittens is factored in.

In 2005, we began this organization with a vision for a No Kill Austin — an open - admission municipal animal shelter with a 90 % or higher save rate — at a time when the city was killing 55 % of impounded animals and over 14,000 a year.

In July, we officially announced 12 consecutive months of having a live release rate of 90 % or higher, making KC Pet Project the largest No Kill shelter in Kansas City, MO and the 4th largest open - admission, No Kill shelter in the United States.