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  2. College admissions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Schools do rescind admission if students have been dishonest in their application, [204] [205] [206] have conducted themselves in a way deemed to be inconsistent with the values of the school, [207] [208] or do not heed warnings of poor academic performance; for example, one hundred high school applicants accepted to Texas Christian University ...

  3. Early decision - Wikipedia

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    Early decision (ED) or early acceptance is a type of early admission used in college admissions in the United States for admitting freshmen to undergraduate programs.It is used to indicate to the university or college that the candidate considers that institution to be their top choice through a binding commitment to enroll; in other words, if offered admission under an ED program, and the ...

  4. Early entrance to college - Wikipedia

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    Early entrance to college, sometimes called early admission or early enrollment, is the practice of allowing students to be accelerated into college, one or more years before the traditional age of college entrance, and without obtaining a high school diploma. In some cases this is done individually.

  5. University and college admission - Wikipedia

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    Unlike universities, colleges do not have admission cut-offs and as long as students have a passing average and the necessary courses, they can gain admission to most colleges. Incidentally, even the newest Canadian universities have larger endowments than any Canadian college, with no Canadian college having an endowment above $10 million.

  6. Legacy preferences - Wikipedia

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    Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions. [21] For example, in the 2008 entering undergraduate class, the University of Pennsylvania admitted 41.7% of legacies who applied during the early decision admissions round and 33.9% of legacies who applied during the regular admissions cycle, versus 29.3% of all students ...

  7. College recruiting - Wikipedia

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    Evaluation period - When a college coach watches a student play the sport they are recruiting for or visits the high school, but they can not have any contact with the student or the parents outside of the college campus. [15] Quiet period - is a time when the college may not have any in-person talk with the prospective student-athlete or the ...

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    Image credits: historycoolkids The History Cool Kids Instagram account has amassed an impressive 1.5 million followers since its creation in 2016. But the page’s success will come as no surprise ...

  9. Academic quarter (class timing) - Wikipedia

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    Academic quarter only applies to time given in full hours, and the academic quarter can be removed by saying that the time is "on the dot" by adding the word "dot" ("prick" in Swedish) or an actual ".". E.g. 10 dot is 10:00. The dot removes one academic quarter, so in the evening time "on the dot" is written "dot dot" to remove both quarters.