"It takes a large amount of commitment, focus and independent work" to succeed at the school, he said.
The school has assured parents, about 75 percent of whom are poor enough for their children to receive free lunch, that the after-school program was no longer mandatory, but some parents say their children cannot succeed at the school without the program, because some instruction in social studies and arts is primarily given in Mandarin.
On your FAFSA application, then, it's important that you demonstrate a lack of the essential funds and holdings that would make you able to pay for your education otherwise, and for your application to be as strong as possible in demonstrating your potential to succeed at the school you choose.
In terms of expansion, Zuckerberg told the audience the reason the co-founders chose Yale, Stanford and Columbia as the first schools at which they'd launch Facebook, was because they knew it would be tough to succeed at those schools.
Succeeding "at school" as a bet on a business that values this so much is very different from learning at school (with the occasional failure and bad grade) and succeeding in life generally.
But despite their robust test scores, there continue to be debates over whether these charter schools work for the most disadvantaged children in neighborhoods like Harlem, and no one has yet demonstrated whether the KIPP model could succeed at the scale of an entire school system.
There's the pressure to look attractive, the pressure to succeed at school, the pressure to be popular, the pressure to get a job, to get a home.
Experts said the rises were likely to be due to a variety of factors, including pressure to succeed at school, the damaging effects of social media, family breakup, growing inequality in recent years, children's body-image fears, a history of abuse, including sexual abuse, and increasing sexualisation.
He has succeeded at raising the school's profile, stabilizing its finances, and increasing enrollment in degree programs to about 10,000 from 7,000.
If this was a few episodes back, I would have *rolled around on the floor* when they started playing "Ave Maria" during the kids-at-the-school-succeeding-in-tasks montage last week.
When a potential student has a high school diploma, has successfully completed courses at a local community college and has a job, this strongly suggests that the student could succeed at our school".
