Sentence examples for admissions competition from inspiring English sources

Mr. Breimer was particularly pleased because, in the admissions competition, which pits colleges against colleges, as well as applicants against applicants, 1,500 is "exponentially better" than 1490.

Competition is forcing students to learn more and be more involved in the community.To a certain extent, yes, but new research suggests that intense admissions competition also brings with it serious costs.

Since most schools do not disclose the number of applications they receive — some schools, like Dalton, claim that disclosing it will exacerbate parental anxiety rather than assuaging it — the number of children taking the tests, known as the E.R.B.'s, is often taken as a proxy for admissions competition.

That in turn allows a club to offer bigger fees to bands, sometimes with lower admission prices, competition the Bottom Line probably couldn't match.

A lot of students don't know it takes six years to become a doctor, plus all the admissions exams and competition for spaces.

Admissions is a competition.

General admission to championship competition starts at $75 a day, at $1.87 to the pound, depending on the date.

Dale Benkenstein was chosen for leading Durham to its first county championship ever, 16 years after its admission to the competition.

But, perhaps to show Leigh that no one, not even the grandest auteur, has a freehold on admission to the competition at Cannes, the festival organisers rejected his film.

Admission to the competition costs 11 Canadian dollars, and includes entrance to Clovermead's Adventure Farm, where spectators can see full hives on display and taste six different types of honey on tap.

He appointed independent external judges to decide on admissions, examinations and competitions, a move which enraged faculty members who had given preferential treatment to their private pupils; feeling themselves deprived of a considerable extra income, many of them resigned.