What to Do When Student Loan Grace Period Ends More Students who rely on loans to pay for college may give little thought to the financial burden they've taken on until after graduation. But borrowers will quickly need to devise a plan for how to pay back student loans as t...
What happens to race in public discussions about “race-neutral” college admissions policies? This article shows how race disappeared from elite political debate during hearings on Texas Senate Bill 175 (2009), the Top Ten Percent Plan (the Plan), which guaranteed college admissions to high ...
While traditional factors remain important, roughly 27% of admissions officers also look at prospective students'social mediaprofiles. As such, if your undergrad GPA is weak, there's not much you can do about it now. But you can emphasize your strengths to help compensate.2 Important Cert...
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What Items Are Not Tax Free:Items that fall outside the list shown above. By the way, if you’re shopping online, as long as you enter your credit card info into an online shopping website during the Texas tax-free weekend, you’re all good. However, if your credit card is declined...
Using domestic violence incident reports for Dallas, Texas and an intervention time-series methodology, they compared domestic violence crimes for an 83-day period before the mandated stay-at-home orders to a 35-day period thereafter. They conclude that there is some evidence pointing to a short...
Texas to the Bay and then again from my fellow authors, coaches, and judges. I had my doubts, but the excellent staff and continuous support from them throughout the process won me over. Trust is not easy for me, but being honest is, and I had to ask myself, ‘What’s the worse...
Educational Policy, 28(4), 516-546. https://doi.org/10.1177/0895904812465114Winkle-Wagner, R., Sule, V. T., & Maramba, D. C. (2012). When race disappears: College admissions policy discourse in the state of Texas. Educational Policy, 28(4), 516-546. doi:10.1177/0895904812465114...