Sentences with phrase «than applicants who»

Some issuers gear secured cards solely toward those looking to build a credit history rather than applicants who have poor credit and are looking to rebuild it.

Charter middle school applicants who were offered a spot at one of the schools to which they applied spent about a year longer attending a charter school than applicants who were not offered a spot.

A person with a clean record is going to qualify for cheaper coverage than an applicant who has been involved in accidents or who has a history that includes moving violations.

For example, if you're a paralegal, becoming a certified paralegal by passing the rigorous test offered by the professional organization NALA will make you a much more qualified candidate than an applicant who just has a degree.

Not exact matches

Though there's generally less competition for jobs in small towns, business owners need to be more careful about finding applicants who are truly qualified and most likely to stay in the position for longer than their counterparts in bigger locales.

If the business is a start - up, the applicant's projections must show that more than 50 % of the business's revenue will be derived from transients who stay for 30 days or less at a time.

According to one government study, applicants who shopped around receive rates up to 0.50 % lower than non-shopping home buyers.

Job applicants who mentioned any form of faith affiliation on their resumes were 26 % less likely to be contacted by employers than candidates who didn't, according to the study conducted by sociologists at the University of Connecticut.

So, too, the seminary, where we must look harder and more critically than we have in the past at applicants who are clearly seeking not a theological education but in fact the cave.

(4) The independent panel shall report as approved for each judicial position all highly qualified persons who make application to the panel, provided that if the number of highly qualified applicants exceeds three times the number of existing vacancies to be filled in such position (determined as of the time the panel renders its report), the independent panel shall report as approved the most highly qualified applicants in a number equal to three times the number of vacancies to be filled in such position, provided further that if the number of highly qualified applicants is less than three times the number of vacancies to be filled in such position the independent panel shall report as approved the most highly qualified applicants in a number equal to not less than two times the number of such vacancies, provided further that the following categories of applicants who are eligible for reelection or reappointment shall be reported as approved if their performance during their term of office merits continuation in office, and no other applicants shall be reported as approved for their vacancies: (a) a judge or justice completing a full term of office seeking re-election to that office, or (b) an interim Supreme Court justice who has been appointed by the Governor to fill an existing vacancy no later than the previous June 1 after approval of the Governor's screening panel, who has been confirmed by the State Senate and has assumed office no later than the date the panel renders its report, and who otherwise would not be required to make application to the independent screening panel pursuant to the provisions of sub-paragraph (3).

Simcox was one of 30 scientists, chosen from a pool of more than 70 applicants, who participated in the 2017 Linton - Poodry SACNAS Leadership Institute.

Who gets academic jobs, he writes, usually depends much more on departmental politics and personalities than on the relative merits of the various candidates, so not being chosen is generally not a reflection on an applicant.

Several scientists who spoke with ScienceInsider expressed concern about excluding those below a 25 % success rate, worrying that far more than 5 % of applicants would eventually be excluded.

And M.D. applicants who do have an R01 grant are less likely than Ph.D. applicants to apply for a subsequent R01 grant.

The participants who read about the unethical behavior of a high - ranking executive, rather than an entry - level employee, made significantly more negative hiring recommendations for the job applicant.

Success rates for loan - repayment programs run about one in three, but more than half of applicants are eventually admitted to a program, with those who need it most succeeding the most often.

According to CaSE, the new U.K. rules will mean that an applicant for a # 23,000 job requiring a Ph.D. will have a better chance of getting a visa than will someone earning # 74,000 but who did not have a Ph.D. - level job offer.

Male job applicants who are perceived to have high levels of leadership potential are rated as a better employment prospect than a female applicant with proven leadership track record.

This program, for candidates who have completed their postdoctoral training but with less than 4 years of subsequent experience, covers topics in general neuroscience and «seeks applicants working on problems that, if solved at the basic level, would have immediate and significant impact on clinically relevant issues.»

Only 28 % of current Humboldt fellows are female, but despite the fact that the foundation does not have a special programme to support them, «Women who apply for Humboldt Research Fellowships have a higher success rate than male applicants,» he points out.

Preference is given to applicants who request a research facility other than the one where the doctoral degree was obtained.

Qian, who is now an assistant professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, was selected from more than 50 applicants from 19 countries.

A «recovering lawyer» who was born in Jamaica, Phang was selected from a diverse pool of more than 260 applicants and intends to use the grant to produce her first narrative feature, The Space Between.

Only about 4 percent of U.S. students go to colleges that accept less than 25 percent of their applicants, and most American kids either don't attend or don't graduate from four - year colleges, says developmental psychologist Richard Weissbourd, who studies the social and emotional lives of teens.

Focusing on the start of the teacher pipeline, i.e., on those who report applying for a teaching job or teachers who begin classroom positions in the year immediately after receiving an undergraduate degree, we find that teacher applicants and new teachers in recent years have significantly higher SAT scores than their counterparts in the mid-1990s.

The three were chosen from more than 120 applicants nationwide, according to William E. McAnulty Jr., a lawyer who heads the Education Management Selection Commission.

The teachers were selected by the council from more than 1,000 applicants who submitted written proposals.

A new study finds that teachers hired during recession periods are more effective in math than teachers who are hired in more secure times because stronger applicants apply for teaching jobs when the economy is not doing well.

While this amounts to a small proportion of total OneApp applicants, others who ranked fewer than eight schools and yet received a Main Round placement might have simply been fortunate.

From a policy - maker's point of voew the important issue is not whether private schools out - perform government schools in the education of students who want out (voucher applicants), but whether choice systems as a whole perform better than systems which do not feature choice.

Charter schools must accept any student who applies, using a lottery if they have more applicants than spaces.

The result of this long slide in teacher quality can be captured in multiple snapshots: the declining U.S. ranking on international education comparisons (down to middle of the pack), the embarrassing number of military applicants who get rejected (more than one in five does not meet the minimum standards for Army enlistment) and the astonishing rates of those needing remedial classes in college (as high as 40 percent).

With far more applicants than spaces, selective schools will typically reject applicants who struggle to succeed in difficult courses.

When schools have more applicants than spaces, students who are not matched to the school are placed on the school's waitlist.

When there are more applicants than available openings for a choice program a random lottery is used to choose who may participate.

After all, why would high - quality private schools with competitive admissions and more applicants than available places accept potentially less - prepared students who are only paying a fraction of the tuition paid by competitively admitted students?

Of course, it's important to remember that colleges look more favorably upon applicants who have done more than meet the minimum requirements.

While it is good that principals have some choice, limiting their choices to this list limits their ability to find a good fit for their school and cuts off access to outside applicants who might be a better fit or more effective than the teachers on the must - place list.»

The premise of this book is that school is not working — not for students, who are more bored and disengaged; not for teachers or administrators, who are worn down from serving more purposes; not for college professors, who need to do more remediation with incoming students; and not for employers, who are more deeply concerned about the quality of prospective applicants than ever before.

If they have more applicants than spaces available, a random lottery determines who gets in.

Such a strategy, however, could be particularly devastating for students who are trying to get into an institution of higher education that requires applicants to submit all of their SAT test results, rather than just their best scores.

If there are more spaces available than eligible applicants from the city or town in which the charter school is located and who are siblings of current students and more eligible applicants than spaces left available, a lottery shall be held to determine which of the applicants shall be admitted; provided, however, that a lottery conducted for Horace Mann charter schools shall reflect the enrollment priorities of this section.

A charter school is prohibited by law from discriminating in admissions and must accept every student who applies or hold a lottery if there are more applicants than the school can accommodate.

For instance, the program could end up doing more for less needy students than those who need it the most, because low - income applicants may already be covered by Pell grants and other federal aid.

(7) failing to select and administer tests concerning employment in the most effective manner to ensure that, when such test is administered to a job applicant or employee who has a disability that impairs sensory, manual, or speaking skills, such test results accurately reflect the skills, aptitude, or whatever other factor of such applicant or employee that such test purports to measure, rather than reflecting the impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills of such employee or applicant (except where such skills are the factors that the test purports to measure).

For example, Harvard accepted only 7 % of the more than 27,000 applicants (about 2,000 students), in the process rejecting many of the 3,300 applicants who ranked first in their high school class and many with perfect scores on one or more SAT papers (2,500 scored a perfect 800 in the SAT critical reading test and 3,300 had a perfect score in the SAT math exam).

There are thousands of other students applying who have the same or better grades than you do, so the admission essay is crucial in helping you stand out from the other applicants.

Of course, the fact is that the risk factor is higher than with applicants who have full - time employment and a steady income.

All applicants less than 21 years old must provide either financial information sufficient to show an independent means to repay required minimum payments, or have a joint applicant at least 21 years of age who furnishes information sufficient to show ability to repay required minimum payments.

Job applicants who are calm are more likely to win their interviewers over; a study of videotaped mock job interviews of 125 undergraduate students found that those who seemed anxious were less likely to succeed in the interviews than those who seem even - keeled.