Sentence examples for most selective schools from inspiring English sources

The most selective schools rank applicants according to their test scores, admitting only the best performers.

By contrast, in one district in the South Bronx, no children qualified for the most selective schools this year.

Bronx Science, from which Mr. Levy graduated in 1970, is one of the city's most selective schools, requiring a test for admission.

As a practical matter, at most selective schools, a significant part of the class may be eligible to place out of the freshman year.

Most colleges give credit for a score of three, four, or five on the advanced placement tests, administered by the College Board, but many of the most selective schools are discussing limits on credits for the scores.

When affirmative action was eliminated in California and Texas, state legislatures devised new, hypothetically race-blind systems that have largely restored the prior numbers of minority students (except at the most selective schools in California).

Here's one unresolved issue in ours: Why did 40percentt of students turn down the most selective school that admitted them?

"But the Stuyvesant curriculum doesn't account for what to do with students who can't get into the most selective school in the system".

The study found that the drop-out effect is magnified when women who received bachelor's degrees from the most-selective schools go on to earn masters of business administration (MBA) degrees: Just 35% of women with bachelor's degrees from top schools who also hold an MBA work full time.

So did 10 of her classmates, the most ever from Bronx Science, one of the city's most selective public schools.

Ms. Roffe is a hearing parent whose 24-year-old deaf son, Simon, graduated from one of the city's most selective high schools, Stuyvesant, and then New York University.