Sentence examples for selective campuses from inspiring English sources
The debate over the use of race in admission decisions has been wrenching, because it demands a trade-off among three worthwhile goals: race-blindness, academic selectivity, and a semblance of racial diversity on selective campuses.
They do nothing for graduate schools, and they often shunt minority students to a system's least selective campuses.
To maintain or build the levels of racial diversity on selective campuses, it is necessary to maintain race-conscious admissions.
Students interested in areas where City is especially strong, like biomedical engineering and architecture, are electing City, often after being admitted to more selective campuses.
Nick Albertson, a college adviser at Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts, says he has seen students get into several Ivy League colleges only to be wait-listed at slightly less selective campuses in which they hadn't shown much interest.
Many students who start at W.C.C. complete their education at Ivy League universities like Columbia, Cornell and Yale, or selective campuses like Stanford, as well as the state's four-year colleges.
N.Y.U.'s highly selective campus there, paid for by Abu Dhabi, the richest of the United Arab Emirates, has just finished its first year of operations, with 150 students from 39 countries, including some from wealthy Emirati families and others who were raised in poverty.
In our sample, only one in six Californians applies to a UC campus, and even fewer to a selective campus where the effects of Prop 209 were strongest.
16 If students know their academic preparation then they would presumably internalize the fact that their graduation rates are lower at the more selective campus.
At the less-selective campuses in the University of Wisconsin system, for example, the average net annual cost for a year of tuition, room, board and fees in 2010-11 walmostost $10,000 for families making less than $30,000, Ms. Turner said.
Moreover, while there was an overall improvement in the academic preparation of minorities enrolling at UC campuses after Prop 209 went into effect, the greatest improvements occurred at the less-selective campuses.
