Sentence examples for admissions boards from inspiring English sources

Admissions boards can seem capricious and impenetrable, if not malignant, to many prospective freshmen.

Unlike basketball or Greco-Roman wrestling, however, squash does enjoy a prestige that some think makes it attractive to college admissions boards.

High school students who wonder how much they should tilt their Facebook profiles toward what their friends will think is cool, or what college admissions boards might prize.

Tim Fryer, STA Travel's UK country manager, says: "Today's young people are under more pressure than ever to have broad work experience and an impressive CV to show future employers or university admissions boards.

He hopes the play conveys the difficulty of selecting a small number of people from a pool of talented applicants amid the other concerns admissions boards have to consider.

Considering the astounding variety of characteristics and accomplishments that applicants to America's most competitive colleges present to the admissions boards every year, it is disturbingly narrow-minded and off-base for our society to focus so much attention and angst on the color of an applicant's skin.

A new play, the aptly titled "Inadmissible," gives the audience entrée to the deliberations of an imaginary admissions board.

Ms. Gann denied that there was undue pressure on the admissions board to present higher test scores.

If the value or appeal of a college applicant was just about his GPA and standardized test scores, schools like Harvard, Yale, Stanford and MIT wouldn't even need an admissions board.

Though many of the tuition-paying students seek out the school, Chavón's admissions board has tended to go out and look for its lower-income candidates.

Ms. Tessier could not say whether a letter had ever led an admissions board to accept a borderline candidate, citing the unique nature of each applicant's admissions review.