Sentences with phrase «students at an admissions»

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Promising students identified at University of the People are eligible for admission at NYU's Abu Dhabi campus.

When evaluating a potential MBA student, admissions officers are looking at the candidate holistically.

Attackers are taking aim at student portals, admission processing sites, mail servers and sensitive databases holding personal information.

«It's a sign of the times,» says Joy St. John, Dean of Admission and Student Financial Services at Wellesley.

When black students are unable to gain admission at the same rate as whites to the elite public exam school in Boston, let's ask a federal judge to mandate black excellence.

The California bill requires that in - state religious colleges that have claimed the federal exemption must disclose that fact in admissions and orientation materials, in faculty and student handbooks, and at a «prominent» physical location on campus.

As an admissions professional at a college, I advise future students to visit both Christian and secular campuses.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

Many observers were troubled when Andy Savage, a pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis, received a standing ovation from his congregation for his admission of a «sexual incident» with a 17 - year - old high - school student when he was a youth leader at Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church in Texas.

An appropriate Business card or Student ID should be presented at time of admission.

Melissa was an early admissions Honors student at the University of Miami, majoring in International Business.

The reality is that admission directors at highly selective colleges across the country — including Stanford — have acknowledged that almost 75 % of their applicants would be terrific students at their universities, but they can only take a much smaller percentage.

The No. 1 thing students can do while on the waitlist is communicate clearly, firmly and respectfully to the admissions office that, if offered, they will accept a spot at the school.

However, if your child is a student who can finish at the top of his or her public school class while securing the support needed to navigate the college admissions process, then he or she may be better off as a giant gerbil in a pint - sized Habitrail.

In other words, a student with a 1300 SAT score at a public high school where the average SAT score is 1000 will have an admissions edge over an equal student at a private school where 1300 is the average SAT score.

So what can you as a parent do to relieve the pressure on your high school student (and put your own mind at ease) around the issue of college admissions?

For anyone at Stanford to advocate for reduced student stress is hypocrisy when their admissions standards promote abusive and corrupt education practices.

The Old Sturbridge Village Educational Outreach Project, created in 2007, provides opportunities to visit the Village through a series of free and reduced admission programs at the museum for students attending schools that meet Title I eligibility requirements for public assistance.

The Admission Committee looks at the applicant in the context of students currently attending and the other candidates who would like to join the same grade.

Admission is based on a review of many factors, including strong prior academic performance, positive teacher reports, a successful interview at our School, and the student's ability to give something back to our School community.

As high school students mull which classes to take next fall, many are hoping to get a leg up in the college admissions race by choosing «dual enrollment» courses — university - level academics offered at their schools that earn them actual college credit.

For all other schools, the number one thing students can do while on the waitlist is communicate clearly, firmly and respectfully to the admissions office that, if offered, they will accept a spot at the school.

While some colleges no longer require SAT or ACT scores for admission, most college - bound students will need to take at least one of these tests.

«By Free SHS, we mean that, in addition to tuition, which is already free, there will be no admission fees, no library fees, no science centre fees, no computer lab fees, no examination fees, no utility fees; there will be free textbooks, free boarding and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free», he explained, adding that, «Free SHS will also cover agricultural, vocational and technical institutions at the high school level.

We are aware that the initial decision by past governments to pay allowance to students in various training institutions was to motivate and incentivise students to promote entry but looking at the current status of those institutions that initial decision has outlived its policy usefulness considering the level of competition in the admission process.

citifmonline.com understands that over 70 students of the St Vincent College of Education at Yendi in the Northern Region have been asked to go home for using grade D7 in English, Mathematics and Science to gain admission into the college.

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

As a parent of a student at Medgar Evers College Preparatory School, I was outraged to hear that Mayor de Blasio wants to water down the admissions process at our school.

«By free SHS, we mean that, in addition to tuition which is already free, there will be no admission fees, no library fees, no science centre fees, no computer lab fees, no examination fees, no utility fees; there will be free textbooks, free boarding and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free.»

«By free SHS, we mean that, in addition to tuition which is already free, there will be no admission fees, no library fees, no science centre fees, no computer lab fees, no examination fees, no utility fees; there will be free textbooks, free boarding and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free,» the president clarified.

Cuomo said rapes become difficult to rule on since other students do not want to admit to being at the party, a potential admission of a campus policy violation.

President Akufo - Addo delivering a speech at the 60th Anniversary celebration and the Speech and Prize Giving Day of Okuapeman School in Akropong in the Eastern Region said: «by free SHS we mean that in addition to tuition which is already free, there will be no admission fee, no library fee, no science centre fee, no computer lab fee, no examination fee, and no utility fee; there will be free text books, free boarding and free meals, and day students will get a meal at school for free.

Enrollment at City Honors School has been lopsidedly white for years, prompting the federal government to step in recently and order changes in the admissions procedures to ensure that black students are not the victims of discrimination.

The Buffalo School Board has decided to review its admissions policies at two of the district's most sought - after schools — City Honors and Olmsted 156 — after some parents complained that the present formula penalizes students who opted out of taking state tests.

«The national leadership of the apex students governing body, National Association of Nigerian Students, frowned at the drastic reduction of the JAMB unified cut off mark to 120, for admission into Nigeria univestudents governing body, National Association of Nigerian Students, frowned at the drastic reduction of the JAMB unified cut off mark to 120, for admission into Nigeria univeStudents, frowned at the drastic reduction of the JAMB unified cut off mark to 120, for admission into Nigeria universities.

A new version of the SAT has longer and harder reading passages and more words in math problems, which some educators and college admissions officers to fear will penalize students who have not been exposed to a lot of reading, or who speak a different language at home — like immigrants and the poor.

The Buffalo Public Schools district potentially faces two lawsuits: for not increasing the ranks of minority students at City Honors and for favoring current city students for admission over charter and parochial students.

Last month, GhCampus.com reported that, the Director - General of Ghana Education Service (GES), Mr Jacob Kor at a press briefing in Accra indicated that a total of 42 Community Day Senior High Schools (SHS) are expected to start admission of their first batch of students for 2016/2017 academic year.

At his school, which costs $ 50,985 for students living on campus, visits by students who were offered early admission have increased 25 percent.

The money will also help pay for new programs aimed at prepping students from under - represented neighborhoods ace the test that is used for admission to these top schools.

Okanlawon further explained that Miss Abiola was among other 98 students who secured admission to study Medicine at the state - owned Osun State University, had their study dreams terminated after the National Universities Commission (NUC) scrapped their course owing to the non-availability of a teaching hospital.

However, in the 6 years that Suzanne Bart has been on the admissions committee for the chemistry program at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, which does look at the scores if provided, the faculty wouldn't consider making the GRE mandatory because of the exam's financial burdens for prospective students, she says.

The graduate admissions committee and the student committee are always at hand to answer any queries or doubts.

As another way to avoid the trade - off between race - blind policies and student diversity, some have suggested race - neutral «class - based» admission policies — targeted at low - income and disadvantaged youth (9 - 11).

Posselt writes that, in some cases, including astrophysics and biology, admissions committees made allowances for certain «specific «underrated» universities whose reputations for strong training in the field surpassed their college or university's relatively weak overall ranking,» but she provides no hints about which programs these may be, so it is not clear whether any are at institutions that enroll significant numbers of students from non-elite or minority backgrounds.

For science students, furthermore, the quality of any research they have done is increasingly important because «faculty increasingly expect that at the point of admission the student will already have had some research experience,» Posselt notes.

««We started seeing these trends last year,» says CGS's Jeff Allum, who authored the report, part of an effort to monitor the graduate admissions process for foreign students at some 500 U.S. institutions.

After being rejected, a blind student wins admission to the physics program at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece

Student fees would climb dramatically and undergraduate admissions there and at the state's other public universities would fall.

Devoutly wishing to enhance minority students» access to academic and career success, and disdaining universities» self - serving desire to assemble racially diverse student bodies at the expense of young people already shortchanged by inferior K — 12 schools, Sander and Taylor show that large minority admissions preferences are hypocritical and a severe disservice to many able students.