Sentences with phrase «top 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.

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

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.

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

Two op - ed pieces have graced its editorial pages, one tellingly authored by Dean Dan Rodriguez from Northwestern Law School, a top tier school.

In my resume, you will find prestigious credentials (such as top grades at a top tier school, a federal clerkship, and big firm experience).

Having a MBA from a top tier school and experience working for an investment bank is not required but definitely recommended for entry into a private equity firm.

I feel like this undergrad resume should be a great foothold to get into a top tier school or perhaps land a job at a major company.

For the chart below, average schools have test scores between the 40th and 60th percentiles in their state, while a top tier school is defined as the 90th percentile and above within its respective state.

Not exact matches

«Turkey's strong STEM universities are churning out high - quality technical talent, and Turkish students from top - tier global schools are keen to return to their bustling hometowns,» says Cem Sertoglu, a partner at Earlybird Venture Capital who invested in Yemek Sepeti and GittiGidiyor.

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.

Held annually at top - tier graduate schools across the U.S., the workshops aim to help players who are interested in owning, operating or building their own businesses.

Not so, says Adam Grant, the No. 1 professor at top - tier business school Wharton, best - selling author and management consultant to the likes of Facebook, Google, Goldman Sachs and the NBA.

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.

For decades, top - tier business schools like Wharton and Babson have offered courses in which students tackle the problems of local firms.

Its graduates go on to graduate school at top - tier universities such as Columbia, Harvard, the University of Chicago, and Yale.

What you need to know to transition from the military into the right MBA program and what distinguishes Tuck among top - tier business schools.

Wealthy families start buying their children's way into elite colleges almost from the moment they are born: music lessons, sports equipment, foreign travel («enrichment» programs, to use the all - too - perfect term)-- most important, of course, private - school tuition or the costs of living in a place with top - tier public schools.

In order to solidify its position among the world's top - tier business schools, Rotman depends on the backing of Annual Fund Donors.

Turow characterized the quintessential Millennial experience this way: «You got into a top tier high school, you hustled through college — you've done everything society told you — and you're not rewarded.

While both the Golden Eagles and Bulldogs are among the area's most prominent football programs, success on the field is not the sole factor in Under Armour selecting schools for its top - tier uniform program.

Soooo, 57 years from now when Saban retires after winning his 47th natty (self flagged for mentioning the R word), if Bama slips to second tier (self flagged again), it may well be difficult to rebuild with top talent potentially leaving for greener pastures, and good talent that is some school's leftovers coming in.

Since arriving at the Camp Nou last summer, the 19 - year - old attacking midfielder has for the most part featured for Barca B, but Spanish second or third tier football can only take him so far and now the search is on to find the youngster the best possible top - flight finishing school.

(A parental dispensation only possible for kids who haven't entered the high - school pressure cooker where — as with Sara Notte — summer homework is graded and can directly affect a student's chances to enter a top - tier university.)

The Gaming Commission touted the economic benefits of bringing table - top gaming to the Southern Tier, including $ 25.6 million in statewide school aid as well as $ 3.2 million for Tioga County and the Nichols town government.

Still, education remains a top - tier issue, even as the more pitched battles over charter schools, teacher evaluations and classroom standards for testing have been quietly de-emphasized in recent legislative sessions.

Fifty three percent passed the English exam — putting them in the top tier of all schools across the state.

And yet top tier local authorities still have the duty to provide sufficient school places and are held responsible for standards — both of which they can not control as more schools opt out of local authority control.

«If Albany is serious about consolidation, then they should actually put teeth behind it and order school districts, fire districts and municipalities to do it — not just blame upstate for New York being in the top tier of highest taxed states in the country.»

By the time I arrived in graduate school, I had experience with five different laboratory environments in two top - tier universities.

Shalala recruited a new dean for the medical school, a visionary charged with moving the medical school's ranking into the top tier.

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.

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

Top - tier schools rely on rankings, too.

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

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

After school, Joey found his passion for triathlons, where he qualified for the USA championships in the sprint and Olympic distances, ranking in the top tier.

I have studied intensively with top - tier teachers in the Iyengar school: Manouso Manos, Ramanand Patel, Tony Briggs, Patricia Walden, and others.

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).

«Lady Bird» Writer - director Greta Gerwig assembled a roster of top - tier talent (most are regulars in the NYC theater scene) to bring to life her portrait of Sacramento, California, in 2002, and a high school senior (Saoirse Ronan) who believes the only interesting thing about the year is that it's a palindrome.

The school also received funding for support classes tied to the curriculum to help lowerperforming students pull off top - tier work.

Two of the network's Tier - 1 schools (Congress Heights and Shaw) place among the top five charters for reading growth scores, and both serve overwhelmingly low - income African American populations.

Over the past year, the Common Core State Standards have risen from a topic of interest mainly to educators and school reformers to a top - tier issue in national politics.

74 % of charter schools in the city received a top tier rating.

The top 10 Tier 1 schools come from almost every part of the district - Wards 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 — and five of them are middle schools.

One notable exception is Washington: The District of Columbia's school voucher program did lead to more low - income students gaining admittance to top tier private schools such as Sidwell Friends.