Sentences with phrase «succeed at college»

Your personal statement should include all of your skills and highlight your eagerness to succeed at the college or employment position in which you are applying.

With a commitment to hard work and focus, every student who chooses Collegiate will graduate ready to succeed at the college of their choice.

I agree that students coming out of Texas high schools are, for the most part, not prepared to succeed at the college level.

One of the most prestigious art schools, Interlochen Arts Academy provides a variety of college preparatory courses designed to expand students» thinking and develop the skills necessary to succeed at college level studies.

An award winning preK - 12th grade school, Haynes pledges that every student of every race, socioeconomic status and home language will reach high levels of academic achievement and be prepared to succeed at the college of his or her choice.

We need more schools to seriously teach (and reward) craftsmanship, to teach students how to develop the determination and confidence they'll need to succeed at college and in careers.

As counselors and published higher education researchers, we aim to bring perspective (and some sanity) to college planning, and we strive to provide students with the support they need to enroll and succeed at a college that is right for them.

Based out of San Francisco, this company was founded to assist the «underdog» in achieving their dreams of attending and succeeding at college.

Not exact matches

Dr. Alan Schlechter, author of «U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (And Life),» is also the professor of the most popular elective class at New York University called «The Science of Happiness.»

«It succeeds despite breaking pretty much every rule of online news,» says Tim Currie, an assistant professor of online journalism at the University of King's College in Halifax.

«To succeed in the Gig Economy, we need to create a financially flexible life of lower fixed costs, higher savings, and much less debt,» Diane Mulcahy, a senior analyst at the Kauffman Foundation and a lecturer at Babson College, writes in her book «The Gig Economy,» which is part economic argument and part how - to guide.

«Having known Mike since he was a college student at Pepperdine University, back in 1997, I can tell you that he was as motivated to succeed then as he is now, 16 years later.

Amazingly, some extraordinarily courageous individuals (initially Arnold himself, journalists David Quinn and Breda O'Brien, the Iona Institute; later on, John Waters, retired Regius Professor of Laws at Trinity College Dublin, William Binchy and the distinguished historian Prof. John A. Murphy; the gay campaigners for a «No» vote, Paddy Manning and Keith Mills, deserve special mention) did succeed in making a difference to the eventual numbers, although not the outcome: in the early Spring, polls indicated that 17 percent of the electorate would vote against the amendment, but by the time the actual referendum came around, 38 percent were indicating a «No» vote, and that was the eventual outcome.

We remark the curious fact that just as, thirty years ago, the churches had about succeeded in excising Bach and Palestina from the ken of the new generation at the moment college and high school choirs were finding them — and church schools, afraid of the recondite reaches of the doctrine of the Lord's Supper, beheld their children at school singing «0 Magnum Mysterium» and «Ave, Corpus Verum» — so, too, the preaching fashion, having become in large part the holy branch office of the local psychiatric clinic, is now confronted with «J.B.,» «The Fall,» «Christmas Oratoria,» and the considerable theological imagery in «Four Quartets.»

Some of them today (and they are mostly colleges, not universities) have succeeded, though at a more deliberate pace, in their ambition to maintain a Christian character while upgrading their scholarly performance.

At Hartwick College the reinstatement of football has succeeded in boosting student enrollment

At this point, Bob Stoops is the Arsene Wenger of college football — he succeeded so quickly that maintaining a high level, but not the highest level, has at times given the impression of tailing ofAt this point, Bob Stoops is the Arsene Wenger of college football — he succeeded so quickly that maintaining a high level, but not the highest level, has at times given the impression of tailing ofat times given the impression of tailing off.

From the variants of the air raid and the spread - to - run attack to the pistol and the various tweaks of the pro-style offense, college coaches have gotten very good at putting their players in position to succeed.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed in a keynote speech and moderate a panel discussion at Student Success Revolution, a forum on the college attainment gap, at Mercy Ccollege attainment gap, at Mercy CollegeCollege.

Paul will discuss Helping Children Succeed in a speech at the Darden College of Education at Old Dominion University, sponsored by United Way of South Hampton Roads.

Paul will discuss How Children Succeed in a speech at the Top Coast Festival, presented by Minnesota Public Radio and the University of Minnesota's College of Continuing Education.

Paul Tough, Jeff Nelson, and other panelists will discuss How Children Succeed and OneGoal (a non-profit educational organization promoting college persistence, featured at length in the book).

Children at the other end of the spectrum, under intense pressure to succeed and get into the right colleges, are committing suicide at alarming rates as Hanna Rosin recently documented in the Atlantic.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

In today's world, children need to be able to succeed and finish college for any chance at a successful life.

ESSEX — College For Every Student (CFES) honored Laura Eldred, teacher at Keene Central School, for her work in helping students prepare for, gain access to, and succeed in cCollege For Every Student (CFES) honored Laura Eldred, teacher at Keene Central School, for her work in helping students prepare for, gain access to, and succeed in collegecollege.

«From the Unemployment Strikeforce to the Urban Youth Jobs program, we are making smart investments to tackle unemployment in communities where it is most pervasive, and connect tomorrow's workers with the skills they need to succeed in a 21st century workplace,» said Cuomo at a bill signing ceremony held at Hostos Community College.

Mr. Johnson, the city's first openly gay male speaker, succeeded in the rough - and - tumble world of New York City politics despite completing less than a month of college, at George Washington University, and arriving in the city at the age of 19 without pedigree or money.

Does the college participate in any federal, state, or privately funded programs designed to help science students complete their 2 - year programs and succeed at the university level?

If the plan succeeds in moving along top priority mouse projects, says awardee Raju Kucherlapati, a geneticist at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, «that will be a great strategy.»

By competing and succeeding in a truly challenging course at a real university, students who have no other connection with higher education — because they often are the first in their families to complete high school, let alone consider college — receive an emotional boost and a realization that college is possible for them.

For instance, if the government had succeeded in culling every infected farm within 24 hours and every adjacent farm within 48 hours, the number of cases would have been cut by 66 % and the number of farms culled by 62 %, according to the Imperial College model (see graph); the other team puts those numbers at 43 % and 46 %, respectively.

While a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, he succeeded in establishing a variety of useful transgenic animal models to elucidate mechanisms of cardiac excitation - contraction coupling and heart failure.

Often, the difference between a student graduating and going to college and a student not finishing school or going on to college is the relationship that student has with just one adult at school who knows him or her well, believes in the student's ability to succeed, and will not let him or her fail.

At Black Rock, despite the long odds, this appears to be working: Last year, 55 students who hadn't succeeded at traditional high schools graduated, with 43 enrolling in community college and 12 joining the militarAt Black Rock, despite the long odds, this appears to be working: Last year, 55 students who hadn't succeeded at traditional high schools graduated, with 43 enrolling in community college and 12 joining the militarat traditional high schools graduated, with 43 enrolling in community college and 12 joining the military.

They have the Y track, so at a certain point, say 10 or 12 years old, there's a fork in the road; the boys and girls who are succeeding are going to go to the right, let's say, and move on to higher secondary education and then college.

Dr. Danielle Moss Lee continues her series about helping young African - Americans attend and succeed in college with a look at the families of first generation college - bound students.

The difference is that, unlike too many schools, Match succeeds at helping these students catch up, get ahead, and go on to college.

Like most established organizations in other sectors, the education system's inclination when it sees a potentially disruptive technology is to cram it into its existing model to sustain what it is already doing, but not fundamentally transform that model into a student - centric one (the importance of making this transformation should be clearer in light of the ACT's announcement today that 60 percent of 2012 high school graduates are at risk of not succeeding in college and career).

«Our goal is to start schools that close the achievement gap and make sure that low - income students are prepared to enter into and succeed in college,» says Peiser, who points out that Uncommon's kids are going to college — and finishing — at four times the rate of their low - income peers nationally.

The study, which analyzed the careers of 1,247 talented youths after high school and after college, found that the overwhelming majority of those who were identified as talented at age 12 tended to succeed in school.

An AVID alumni on the panel ~ now a Junior at American University ~ spoke eloquently about the effect AVID had for her in helping her realize her dreams and passion ~ and how the program taught her how to learn ~ and study ~ and be prepared to succeed in college.

The entire Common Core edifice — and the assessments, cut scores, and accountability arrangements built atop it — presupposes that «college - ready» has the same definition that it has long enjoyed: students prepared to succeed, upon arrival at the ivied gates, in credit - bearing college courses that they go right into without needing first to subject themselves to «remediation» (now sometimes euphemized as «developmental education»).

The people at ACT, the College Board, and NAGB have sweat bullets developing metrics that gauge what a twelfth grader must know and be able to do in order to be truly college - ready — again, in the sense of having solid prospects of succeeding in credit - bearing college courses in one subject or aCollege Board, and NAGB have sweat bullets developing metrics that gauge what a twelfth grader must know and be able to do in order to be truly college - ready — again, in the sense of having solid prospects of succeeding in credit - bearing college courses in one subject or acollege - ready — again, in the sense of having solid prospects of succeeding in credit - bearing college courses in one subject or acollege courses in one subject or another.

To our eyes, these pictures help explain why America's college matriculation rate is up but its college completion rate is not: We've succeeded at motivating more young people to enroll, but we haven't prepared more of them to succeed at it.

If we are serious about educating our children, we need to start them at the same age they begin playing organized sports — the pre-K years — and see them through college, the level of education needed to succeed in an Information Age economy.

And researchers at CUNY find that if college students assessed as needing remedial algebra are instead placed directly into credit - bearing statistics and provided extra support, they are more likely to succeed in their first college - level quantitative course and complete more college credits overall.

Held at the prestigious Grosvenor House Hotel in London, the Tes FE Awards recognises the training providers and colleges that deliver courses which engage with learners and offer them the best chance to develop and succeed in their chosen careers.

Often, the difference between a student who graduates from high school and goes on to college and one who does not is a relationship with a caring adult at school who knows him well, believes in his ability to succeed, and will not let him fail.

In February 2011 the Pathways to Prosperity Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education released a report challenging our excessive focus on the four - year college pathway, arguing that we need to create additional pathways that combine rigorous academics with strong technical education to equip the majority of young people with the skills and credentials to succeed in our increasingly challenging labor market.