Sentences with phrase «tier schools»

Top tier schools should also provide career services such as job search assistance.

Baltimore student apartments are quite common, as there are several top tier schools in the city.

More education is required to get in to the top tier schools, on average, so this adds time.

The idea is that [the firm] will attract first - years from second - tier schools or less - competitive students at the top schools.

Moreover, as firms have increased in size, so too has the demand for associates from the upper ranks of top - tier schools, thus driving up the price for talent.

The 2011 data showed that top - ranked schools sent graduates into long - term legal jobs in high numbers, but 87 lower - tier schools had placement rates of 50 % or less.

While the top - tier schools would probably go about their business as usual, all other schools would have to adapt, quickly, or die.

I mean, the future of 4th - tier schools is not looking bright right now.

I have friends who've attended every type of law school ranging from top tier schools, lower ranked schools, and even unranked schools.

Some students who plan on entering public service make an affirmative decision to attend lower - tier schools which may give them in - state tuition rates or part or full scholarship.

Meanwhile, I'm surprised that no one has yet mentioned another unintended consequence of the Harvard waiver program: its potential to block opportunities from graduates from lower - tier schools.

Absent a willingness on the part of firms to go deeper into the class at top - tier schools, and / or expand target schools beyond the top 50, a better approach is to accept the pipeline numbers for what they are and accept that diverse representation will ebb and flow because the competition is fierce and these students have a lot of options.

And, according to Professor Taylor's report, these numbers may be an overestimation, because fewer minorities are gaining admission to top - tier schools.

The so - called «elite schools» are turning to so - called «lower tier schools» to learn more about their clinical programs, as I described here, while schools like Detroit Mercy are elevating their rankings by building the types of prominent connections that elite schools already have in place because of their alumni.

As The New York Times summed up the situation earlier this week, law firms» decisions to cancel or downsize summer programs is having an impact even at top tier schools, where firms traditionally drew the majority of their summer classes:

Their prospective students can't get into top tier schools, but are savvy enough to know all about the non-profit schools» misrepresentation of how many of their graduates get law jobs.

Missing from the collection are several top - tier schools such as Harvard, Stanford and Columbia.

For current residents, the lure of affordable housing, upper tier schools and a booming job market are all great reasons to relocate within the state.

While many of these school districts lack the manpower to directly recruit talent from these top - tier schools, they are establishing new programs that have comparable opportunities to popular alternative teacher certification programs.

Sir Albert claimed he was frustrated with the two - tier schools system in which academies operate outside the local authority's control and report directly to the DfE.

From 2016 to 2017, the number of bottom - tier schools for math and ELA performance approximately doubled (page 8 here).

Many of these middle tier schools are places facing the same challenges as the tier 3 and 3b schools, but with highly dedicated and motivated staffs who learned how to do more with less.

While many high schools push poor students toward less competitive college, this New York nonprofit helps to graduate kids from top - tier schools at remarkable rates

The council's plans were to close and merge many of the three - tier schools to create more of a two - tier system in the county, after it warned that many other schools are also undersubscribed, running at a deficit and in buildings needing substantial improvements.

He will be attending Syracuse University in New York on a full tuition scholarship from the Posse Foundation - an organization focused on sending diverse young leaders to top - tier schools around the country.

In April 2015 he caused controversy by granting permission for neighbouring academies in Redditch, Worcestershire, to convert into two - tier schools, despite concerns that it would «decimate» the town's education system and threaten other local schools.

For a woman from the bottom - tier schools, there was little change in the ratio of female earnings to male earnings.

By 2000, most states had earnings ratios near 100 percent for all aptitude groups, indicating that graduates of the most highly selective colleges earned no more as teachers than did graduates from bottom - tier schools!

Our long - term goal is that all three tier schools in our MAT will use ParentPay, meaning parents will only have to activate one account.»

all contribute to one of the most important characteristics of bottom - tier schools: their inability to follow through.

The difficulties facing low - income students help explain why so few attend top - tier schools.

The program sends teams of 10 to 12 students, tuition - free, from five metropolitan areas to 19 participating, top - tier schools.

Additionally, a proportional increase in minority admissions was observed for second - tier schools.

Top - tier schools rely on rankings, too.

«These scientists are well qualified and on par with those graduating from the top - tier schools.

The top schools have excellent advising, he says, but at second - tier schools, the Ph.D. mentors may not always be qualified to supervise students, and only 20 to 30 percent have a Ph.D. themselves.

Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.

Major in science, engineering or math at a top - tier school, and your predicted return on investment sky - rockets.

And students who may not have the resources to attend a top - tier school can access its courses without having to travel to its campus.

I agree, I would rather see a loss to a top tier school than a win over another nameless tier 3 school.

This move will create a two - tier school lunch program, forcing less affluent school districts to purchase the less expensive, pink slime beef.

ICYMI: Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo told me during a CapTon interview last night that she's worried Southern Tier school districts impacted by recent flooding won't be able to stay within the 2 percent property tax cap pushed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and passed by the Legislature this past session.

A «cascading» effect was proposed in which minority students who would have attended a first - tier school under affirmative action have now been shuffled to second - tier schools.

While the effect of moving from a lower - to a middle - tier school or from a middle - to an upper - tier school was found to be positive, it was so small as to be barely measurable.

The performances range from terrible - on - purpose (Fiennes, Close, and Jason Isaacs, whose first line as Pucci's father --»... You let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top - tier school» — hastily but explicitly lampoons the genre's default father - son conflict, thus throwing The Chumscrubber's true target of ridicule (movies about the middle - class rather than the middle - class itself) into sharp relief) to oblivious (Camilla Belle).

In communities where the shift has been mandated — high schools in and around Portland, Me., for example — it has faced considerable resistance from parents and teachers annoyed that the time - consuming, and sometimes confusing, change in classroom life has come from top - tier school administrators.

Also, I'd like to point out that the middle tiered schools really struggled in the tiering scheme as well as the top and the bottom.

Help them out and make a splash at the same time with a four - tier school supply cake!

Beginning the 2018 - 19 school year, the Illinois State Report Card will display the tier your school falls into and the type of supports that are being utilized by your school.

While the McKinley drama was playing out in Compton, in mid-May parents in Buffalo, N.Y., pulled kids out of schools for half a day, protesting a two - tier school system.