Sentences with phrase «more graduates attending»

The school has become a model of Green Dot success with more graduates attending UCLA than those from any other school, public or private, in the city.

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He signed up with Doba while attending the State University of New York at Brockport and to date, this now 22 - year - old college graduate / entrepreneur has sold more than $ 70,000 worth of merchandise to consumers through eBay and Amazon using the suppliers found on the Doba platform for drop shipping.

For more specialized graduate programs, specific subject - related entrance exams are required such as the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) for business, Law Admissions Test (LSAT) for Law, and the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) to attend a medical university or graduate programs, specific subject - related entrance exams are required such as the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) for business, Law Admissions Test (LSAT) for Law, and the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) to attend a medical university or Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) for business, Law Admissions Test (LSAT) for Law, and the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT) to attend a medical university or college.

If the borrower in the above situation had also taken out an additional $ 40,000 in unsubsidized direct federal loans to attend graduate school at the current interest rate of 5.8 percent, the differences in outcomes between repayment plans are even more dramatic (see chart below).

More than 2,000 undergraduate and graduate students attended the Indiana University - Purdue University Columbus in 2014 - 2015.

Therefore, before you apply — and more importantly, before you decide whether to attend — prayerfully define your career goals and how you believe a particular graduate program could help or hinder you in achieving them.

Catholics who graduate from Catholic schools, for example, may be more tolerant than Catholics who attended public schools.

Then a public health person who advocates for more CPMs, a CNM who attends homebirths, a graduate student, another midwife, & a pediatric nurse.

Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign reported in 2013 that on average, students who eat school breakfast attend 1.5 more days of school per year and score 17.5 percent higher on standardized math tests; when combined, these factors translate into a student being twenty percent more likely to graduate high school.

We have a stronger economy, a cleaner environment, a fairer criminal justice system, and more high school graduates attending college than ever before.

More than 30 Buffalo Public High School graduates have been attending the Say Yes Summer Academy at ECC.

«Crime is down, our economy is strong, affordable housing is being built, and more children are attending pre-K and graduating from high school than ever before,» said de Blasio spokesman Austin Finan.

Of the 569 students who attended the four closing high schools during the 2010 - 11 school year, only 47 percent graduated with a local or Regents diploma (lower than the citywide average by 15 percent) and 22 percent of them dropped out or were discharged (more than twice the citywide average).

She also would like to attend graduate school, and will probably need to take out more loans.

Tisch says that only slightly more than one third, or 37.2 percent, of today's ninth graders will graduate high school college or career ready, and most of those who attend higher education institutions will have to take costly remedial classes.

More than 70 graduate students and 15 professors and postdocs attended, including Anand Murugan, a graduate student at Princeton who is looking at the physical properties governing how proteins interact to turn genes on and off.

Using data from Florida, researchers confirmed previous research that students attending charter high schools are more likely to graduate from high school and enroll in college.

So, upon graduating from high school, I chose to attend the smallest of the majority institutions that offered me a full scholarship, assuming that it would offer me smaller classes and a more close - knit environment.

A new study in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching indicates that undergraduates who participate in mentored research not only graduate more often with science degrees, but also attend graduate school and pursue STEM careers at higher rates.

In his speech last night to Congress, President Barack Obama promised that his education policies would help more people attend college, ensuring that «by 2020, America will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.»

In fact, according to the report from the academies» National Research Council, there's no good evidence that students are any more likely to graduate from college with a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) degree or pursue a scientific career if they attend a specialty science and math school than a regular school.

«Attending a more selective college doesn't mean a better chance of graduating.»

«Merely attending a more selective college does not make much of a difference for a given student's chance of graduating, if all else remains the same,» said co-author Paul Attewell.

This half - life existence of graduate students can be minimized in a number of ways; pick a school and department that has a socially active graduate student body; bring a significant other with you to graduate school; attend a school in a major metropolitan area; live in a graduate dorm; find friends in more socially active departments; join a gym or go to the gym on campus; become involved in the surrounding community; suck it up and plan social events yourself for the uninitiated in your department; and finally desperately seek someone — anyone — who will halfway understand your life, i.e., make real friends rather than acquaintances.

These provisions would have made it more expensive to attend graduate school, and would have discouraged students from low - and even middle - income families from considering a career in science.

Dr. Cardellino has attended more than 3,000 hours of advanced education classes (in her 19 years practicing dentistry) since graduating from dental school including courses in biological - holistic dentistry, ozone therapy,... Read more

And I think I can speak for all 7 of us who attended the 5 day intensive General Assembly «Startup Bootcamp» when I say this was not an outcome that I alone experienced, all of us, despite coming from quite dramatically different backgrounds — we had a baker, an airline owner, a fresh graduate, a tech developer, PR executive and surveyor in the class — completed the bootcamp with a more definitive idea of the way in which to make our business dream an achievable reality.

Recent studies have been confirming what most of us have known all along - women are more likely to attend university and graduate than men.

Thousands of students attend these schools, and even more have graduated from them.

Early research shows that students in these new schools are more likely to attend school and go on to graduate.

Houston - based YES Prep, for example, has made much of the fact that 100 percent of their graduating seniors have been accepted to college; more than 90 percent are the first in their family to attend a four - year college.

During the past 12 years, the period in which inclusion has been used more extensively, the number of students with disabilities who have graduated from high school has tripled; the number attending college has doubled.

Later in life, they were more likely to attend and graduate from a four - year college, and they had higher earnings at age 25.

The contrast across subgroups in the 2004 data is even more stark if we consider race, degree attainment, and institution sector simultaneously: only 4 percent of white graduates who never attended a for - profit defaulted within 12 years of entry, compared to 67 percent of black dropouts who ever attended a for - profit (not shown in table).

As research points out, small schools improve life outcomes by helping more students graduate, thus providing them with the opportunities to attend college, find meaningful employment, and become productive citizens.

The Total line includes an additional small category not shown here of students who attended more than one type of graduate school.

A rigorous study by David Deming of Harvard, for example, found that Head Start graduates were less likely to repeat grades or be diagnosed with a learning disability, and more likely to graduate from high school and attend college.»

The Li and Scott - Clayton study does indeed show that 1) the black - white debt gap is in large part due to greater graduate school enrollment and borrowing among blacks, and 2) blacks are much more likely to attend a for - profit graduate school, a sector in which black enrollment grew rapidly in recent years.

In particular, he runs four charter school campuses on Chicago's South Side that are graduating more than 90 percent of their students with 95 to 98 percent of those students attending college.

The evidence used to adduce the negative impact of undermatch is that students attending less - selective institutions than they were qualified to attend graduated at lower rates than similar students attending more - selective institutions.

If those schools were to merit a special mention regarding the debt gap, researchers and the media should be able to show that students who attended for - profit schools accumulated more debt than if they had attended a different type of school, or that a graduate degree from a for - profit school has a lower return on investment than one from another school.

Li and Scott - Clayton also reveal that black students are much more likely to attend for - profit graduate schools and that much of the increase in graduate school enrollment among blacks in recent years has occurred at those schools.

Graduates of the deeper learning schools were more likely to enroll in four - year colleges, attend selective schools, and report higher levels of academic engagement and motivation to learn.

Students who attend more selective universities, which might be expected to be more challenging to complete, actually graduate at higher rates than students who attend less selective universities.

To quote from Fr, Heft's concluding chapter, «A Catholic high school that offers the education that it should will provide not only spiritual development, it will also provide a superior education, precisely because it will integrate knowledge; attend to both the heads and hearts of their students; engage parents more intimately in the education of their children; deepen their understanding and strengthen the practice of their faith; and prepare their graduates to enter thoughtfully a culture that offers opportunities and has needs, not just for technical skills, but even more for wisdom and generosity.»

Under his leadership, these schools are graduating more than 90 percent of their students and 95 to 98 percent of those students are attending college.

Young people who have these capacities are more likely than their peers to attend and graduate from college.

But there are few stories on the success of students participating in these programs, the positive impact on their lives, and ultimate economic benefit to students and the nation if we have more high - school graduates and students attending and persisting in college.

They were more likely to finish high school, attend and graduate from a four - year college, and have higher earnings than their peers going to schools that didn't face accountability pressure.

From 1998 to 2007, more than 3,000 graduates of the Puente program have been accepted by four - year colleges, a rate one - third higher than that of Latino students with similar socioeconomic and academic backgrounds who attend the same California public schools but aren't enrolled in Puente.