Sentences with phrase «tier of admitted students»

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Jamie Merisotis, president of the Institute for Higher Education Policy, said top - tier institutions (with their large endowments) are able to increase need - based scholarships but are traditionally reluctant to lower their academic standards.9 Terry Hartle, the American Council on Education's senior vice president, justified this policy, saying colleges should hesitate to admit «academically underprepared» students.

Seniors are typically admitted to second - or third - tier colleges, though it is a point of pride that a high fraction of these students find the inner resources to graduate from college.

Schools that admit a lot of students from low - income families and help a significant percentage of them find their way into to the top tier of earners aren't leafy private schools, but mostly urban...