Sentence examples for applicants compared to from inspiring English sources

Hopkins School in New Haven received 440 applications, up 10percentt from last year's 400, and Taft School in Watertown had 1,230 applicants compared to 1,142 last school year.

Harvard accepts 30 percent of these "legacy" applicants, compared to a 6 percent overall rate.

Vanderbilt — by design, it says — admitted 55percentt of transfer applicants compared to 25percentt of the freshman pool.

Many institutions, including my own, have performed well, attracting similar or increased numbers of applicants compared to the bumper year in 2011.

The UKCES survey found that in Northern Ireland languages account for 34% of skills lacking in applicants, compared to 17% in England, 13% in Scotland and 9% in Wales.

In 2013 Oxford University offered places to just 17% of its ethnic minority applicants compared to 25% of white applicants, while Cambridge offered places to only 23% of ethnic minority applicants against 29% of those classified as white.

Applicants are compared to all other applicants, both regionally and globally.

Since the admission staff must select a first-year class from an abundance of highly able and accomplished candidates, and since all applicants are compared to the entire applicant pool, it is extremely difficult to explain why any one student is refused.

How did the Senegalese applicants fare compared to the rooted French applicant?

It probably doesn't hurt that using AngelList for its application process means that 500 Startups gets a greater diversity of applicants, when compared to it just relying on friends and family to refer startups to it.

Most comprehensives are public, accept the majority of applicants, and compared to major research universities or liberal arts colleges, serve a more diverse student body in terms of age, ethnicity, part-time status, first-generation-college attenders and socioeconomic background.