Sentences with phrase «with high admission»

(Also: encountered most often at places with high admissions standards.)

Not exact matches

College Board President David Coleman said the partnership aims to level the college admissions playing field by putting high - quality training within easy reach of students without the funds for commercial test - prep services or the family support often needed to stick with a self - paced practice book.

This Christian college in Missouri has a lower acceptance rate than Cornell, the Ivy with the highest acceptance rate, and requires students to show financial need for admission.

So when front man Jason Lytle sings «might as well give up, old friends,» on the album highlight «Rear View Mirror,» you can only sympathize with the timid high - pitched admission of defeat.

In fact, we should have organizations develop admissions tests aligned with other high school orientations as well — multicultural curricula, Afrocentric curricula, STEM - and arts - based curricula.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

He is arrested, condemned by the high priest, on his own admission that he is the Christ, the Son of Man, who is to come with the clouds of heaven, and again condemned as «King of the Jews» by Pilate, is crucified, and dies.

Many observers were troubled when Andy Savage, a pastor at Highpoint Church in Memphis, received a standing ovation from his congregation for his admission of a «sexual incident» with a 17 - year - old high - school student when he was a youth leader at Woodlands Parkway Baptist Church in Texas.

The research team found that women who ate the dates had a significantly higher mean cervical dilatation upon admission compared with the non-date fruit consumers (3.52 cm vs 2.02 cm, p < 0.0005).

Increment bulk: Studies have demonstrated a higher protein admission can build muscle size and quality when consolidated with resistance preparing (20, 21).

There is a solution to consider that will let us compete with every top club in the world and I'm amazed nobody has thought of it as it is 2 very simple steps 1) Build a new stadium and charge the highest admission prices for tickets.

With so many seats to fill, it was widely thought that the club may lower admission prices to help ensure a high turnout.

Many interviews take place in the fall either with an admissions counselor on campus or while they are on the road visiting your high school.

In other words, a student with a 1300 SAT score at a public high school where the average SAT score is 1000 will have an admissions edge over an equal student at a private school where 1300 is the average SAT score.

This study, a cohort study of severe morbidity and mortality of term fetuses or neonates, called ATNICID (Admission of Term Neonates to Intensive Care or Intrauterine Death), was begun in 2007 with the express intent of examining the relationship between the organization of the Dutch maternity care system and the high rate of perinatal mortality.

Most won admission to top high schools, often with full scholarships.

Yet, hormones, adrenaline and disbelief, together with a rapid High Dependency Unit stay and a week long hospital admission, meant that the comparisons to Leo were delayed.

Out - of - hospital births were also associated with a higher rate of unassisted vaginal delivery and lower rates of obstetrical interventions and NICU admission than in - hospital births, findings that corroborate the results of earlier studies.3 - 5 These associations follow logically from the more conservative approach to intervention that characterizes the midwifery model of care8, 19 and from the fact that obstetrical interventions are either rare (e.g., induction of labor) 20 or unavailable (e.g., cesarean delivery, whether at home or at a birth center) outside the hospital setting.

The data also show that early term babies delivered by cesarean section were at a higher risk — by 12.2 percent — for admission to the NICU compared with full - term babies and at 7.5 percent higher risk for morbidity compared with term births.

They also found that birth by elective cesarean section pushed those risks even higher, from 9.7 percent risk of admission to neonatal intensive care with vaginal deliveries to 19 percent following cesarean section.

The odds for neonatal seizure were higher and the odds for admission to a NICU lower with planned out - of - hospital births than with planned in - hospital birth.

Planned out - of - hospital birth also had a statistically significant association with higher rates for 5 - minute Apgar scores of less than 7, neonatal seizures, neonatal ventilator support, maternal blood transfusion, and unassisted vaginal delivery but with lower rates of both admission to neonatal intensive care units and obstetrical interventions, including induction and augmentation of labor, operative vaginal delivery, cesarean delivery, and severe perineal lacerations.

Meanwhile, malaria and hypertension recorded the highest cause of admission with 1002 and 709 cases respectively whiles 639 abortion cases were recorded.

Plans for two new state - funded Catholic schools with discriminatory admissions policies have cleared a further hurdle today, after Mr Justice Sales in the High Court dismissed a judicial review of Richmond - upon - Thames council's decision to approve them.

The proposal would ease admissions rules for a few of the higher - performing schools with the intent of attracting more minority students, and parents who fear that their children will lose out are pushing back.

Lord Hill also assured peers that the academy funding agreements will require academies to comply with the school admissions code and law, as with all maintained schools, noting that «the code and related legislation outlaw additional selection and require the highest priority to be given to looked - after children.»

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has begun releasing the results, with highest - scoring candidates emerging.

Duke was referring to the fact that the while refusing to hold town hall meetings, Faso has met with large groups of people at paid events, including a fundraiser this week that cost a minimum of $ 1,000 a plate, and the January breakfast meeting of the Ulster County Regional Chamber of Commerce, for which the admission price was as high as $ 35.

Community members will have the chance to weigh in on the programs, along with the specialized high schools admissions process, as part of Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams» and Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.'s «Gifted & Talented Task Force.»

Washington's blood pressure was so high upon admission to Rockefeller Hospital — 225/145 mm Hg — that today's clinicians would treat it as an emergency, with high doses of medication.

Its activities include assisting undergraduates with the graduate admissions process, mentoring local high school students, connecting black graduate students with faculty of color, as well as several social activities, including bowling, barbeques, and an annual formal with alumni.

On the contrary, men who were underweight in childhood had a higher risk of asthma admission in early adulthood compared to men with normal BMI, with the strongest link seen with the BMI measurements taken at the age of 12.

In comparison with term newborns (birth at 39 to 41 weeks), early - term newborns had higher risks for birth complications, including: hypoglycemia (low blood sugar, 4.9 percent vs. 2.5 percent), NICU or neonatology service admission (8.8 percent vs. 5.3 percent), need for respiratory support (2.0 percent vs. 1.1 percent), and requirement for intravenous fluids (7.5 percent vs. 4.4 percent).

Early - term births (37 to 38 weeks gestation) are associated with higher neonatal morbidity (illness) and with more neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or neonatology service admissions than term births (39 to 41 weeks gestation), according to a study by Shaon Sengupta, M.D., M.P.H., now of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and formerly of the University at Buffalo, N.Y., and colleagues.

Also, a study of hospital admissions in Wisconsin found that high air pollution emissions were associated with a 40 percent increase in the rate of bowel disease hospitalizations in 2002.

Researchers found that anemia was present in about a quarter of patients with stroke upon admission and was associated with a higher risk of death for up to one year following either ischemic stroke (clotted blood vessel) or hemorrhagic stroke (ruptured blood vessel).

«They just don't know how the game is played,» said Thomas Mortenson, a policy analyst for the Council for Opportunity in Education, about the lack of experience many lower - income families have in dealing with financial aid.7 Many «high - income high schools» help students apply to college - entrance preparation classes at top universities, and they sometimes provide private admissions counselors.8

Signe Sorup, Ph.D., of the Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues examined whether the live MMR vaccine was associated with lower rates of hospital admissions for infections among children in a higher - income setting (Denmark).

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.

One study reported that states with medical marijuana dispensaries had higher rates of both marijuana and alcohol use, as well as higher admissions into alcohol treatment facilities.

By contrast, in the historiometric approach, a person's IQ is quantitatively estimated based on variables having known correlations with IQ, such as highest level of education, academic honors, scores on college admissions exams, occupation, and preferences.

By their own admission: «health expenditure showed by far the highest correlation coefficients» (i.e. high health expenditures correlated well with low occurrence of cardiovascular disease).

Such admissions aren't going to please the pro-Zionist viewers in your crowd, but The Gatekeepers, a concentrated blast of high - level doubt that gathered heat at TIFF, asserts its importance with each anecdote.

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A current study of 10 Linked Learning programs in California, for example, has so far found that students in these programs have dramatically lower dropout rates and slightly higher graduation rates, than the state as a whole, and are more likely to graduate with the courses required for admission to California's public universities.

Calls for at least a year of education or training after high school, as President Barack Obama has issued, put special pressure on community colleges, which are arguably the most democratic of higher education institutions, with their low price tags, broad missions, and open admissions policies.

As a result, only applicants with an undergraduate GPA of 3.26 or higher were eligible for admission in spring 2014.

There is a wide range of different themes for the 504 California magnets, which are scattered across 87 school districts.8 Most people probably think of the «gifted» or «high achieving» version of magnet schools with selective admissions criteria, but these are less than 20 percent of California magnet schools (81 of the 504).