With so many considerations, who counts as underrepresented? The answer can be unclear, and it has changed over time. To take the most salient example, only 3.5% of law students in 1960 were women. However, women now make up a slight but growing majority of law students. Women...
Some say the MCAT impedes low-income premeds of all ethnic backgrounds, especially those whose parents did not attend college or who were raised in rural areas, and that the test particularly deters premeds from underrepresented racial groups, including Black and His...
If you find yourself pirouetting in your sleep and subdividing the rhythm of life into segments of eight counts then chances are you’re considering a career in dance or a related field. So much of success in dance comes from practice and competition while actually dancing. Is it even entire...
But look at how far the Cleveland Browns have come since the Prognosticator and I took office. The team no longer sucks. That counts for something right. I mean, it’s practically a campaign slogan. Look, we’ve been through a lot as a nation in the last four years. From Baker Mayfie...
Lycoming College Admissions Director Jessica Hess says, "Calls to the college, campus visits, attendance at local area events, whether or not they open our emails and how many links they click on, research,attendance at high school college fairs—that all counts as demonstrated interest." ...
It seems that good time management skills balancing work and study while in college might not be enough to develop this skill in the workplace. The open-ended responses alluded to a solution, better preparation in the engineering education preparation of what a work day and work expectations ...
interest (Silent Covenants. Brown v. Board of Educationand the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform, Oxford University Press, 2004). In short, a radical rethinking of how and what counts as authentic accounting knowledge might reverse the anti-accounting trend prevalent amongst both white and URM ...
In the “Prepared for Success” section of its report card, for example, Ohio even provides the number of students from a given cohort who graduate college within six years after high school. And it provides a link to “transition reports” that include further detail. ...
Changing the narrative around what counts as outdoor time—prioritizing backyard play as often as backcountry treks—invites more people to acknowledge the innumerable ways they can and perhaps already do enjoy outdoor time. “Obviously, not everybody has a backyard, but more people have opportunit...
the College Board offers National Recognition Programs to award academic honors to eligible underrepresented students and connect them with colleges across the country. To qualify, a student must take the PSAT/NMSQT or PSAT 10 and score in the top 10% by state, according to the College Board. ...