Many colleges advertise generous merit scholarships without explaining that there are actually several different kinds of merit aid. Some colleges, for example, give fancy merit-sounding names to scholarships that they award to qualified students who have also shown that they can't afford the college...
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在文理学院排行榜中,马萨诸塞州的威廉斯学院(Williams College)和阿姆斯特学院(Amherst College)分别排名第一和第二。 The 2013 edition of the U.S. News &World Report Best Colleges rankings is out, with stability at the very top ofboth the National Universities and National Liberal Arts Colleges lists...
本文参考原文:《Boston Magazine》2014年9月的一篇报道:How to Game the College Rankings http://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/article/2014/08/26/how-northeastern-gamed-the-college-rankings/ 有关US News的排名细则,感兴趣可参考往期文章你真的看懂了US News排名吗(一);你真的看懂了US News排名吗(二) 看...
其认为,由于在US News上占据高位的学校从排名中获益不少,因此这些学校会在有利于排名的方面投入更多资金。比如说,从90年代中期到2000年代中期,为了吸引高GPA和SAT分数的学生,私立四年制大学在优秀奖学金(merit-based aid)方面的投入,从16亿美元增长到46亿美元。有研究表明,每10名学生获得优秀奖学金的同时,就意味...
If we [want to do] anything for low-income kids, we have to take the money out of merit aid. It’s not merit at all.” Dr Carnevale said that when university leaders at selective universities try to “play it differently” and “make their college look more like America”, they are...
allowing students to get a rough idea of how much their intended course of study would cost and what aid they may be eligible for. These “net price calculators” can be accessed via the government’sCollege Affordability and Transparency Center, which also provides details of the US universitie...
At present,96 of the top 100 US colleges and universities (perUS News & World Report’srankings list) are test optional. “Test optional” means exactly what it sounds like: submission of SAT and/or ACT scores iscompletely optional in the admissions process.More specifically, you won’t be...
Ramaswamy is a biotech and health care entrepreneur who has written two books, “Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence” and “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam.” Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ramaswamy is a first-...
Even though international students aren't eligible for federal financial aid, there are other ways to supplement your funding. Many private funds and non-profits provide merit-based, need-based, major-specific, heritage-specific, gender-specific, religious, and other targeted financial support to ...