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Over at The Choice, the college blog of The New York Times, Jacques Steinberg reports that "the enduring popularity of binding early-decision programs this year has come into increasingly sharper ...
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 (i.e., if offered admission under an ED program, and the financial aid ...
Legacy preference or legacy admission is a preference given by an institution or organization to certain applicants on the basis of their familial relationship to alumni of that institution. It is most controversial in college admissions, [3] where students so admitted are referred to as legacies or legacy students.
For Fall 2016, the College of Letters and Science had an admission rate of 21.2%, the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science (HSSEAS) had an admission rate of 12.4%, the Herb Alpert School of Music had an admission rate of 23.5%, the School of the Arts and Architecture had an admission rate of 10.3%, the School of Nursing had ...
The impact factor ( IF) or journal impact factor ( JIF) of an academic journal is a scientometric index calculated by Clarivate that reflects the yearly mean number of citations of articles published in the last two years in a given journal, as indexed by Clarivate's Web of Science . As a journal-level metric, it is frequently used as a proxy ...
As Rev. Juan Gonzales, Hispanic Student Specialist at Asbury University puts it, "We have many conversations with first-generation students, attending college for the first time or who immigrated ...
“Hi everybody,” the multi-hyphenate wrote. “I found out some great news and it’s all because of YOU!! ATLAS is #1 worldwide again this week!!! Thank you all so much!!! It may seem like ...
The days when employees would work for a company for the bulk of their life and then receive a nice pension at retirement are, for the most part, long gone. Not only are employees much more nimble...