Some will adopt niche positions catering to elite students of one type or another.
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Conventional wisdom has it that elite students will attend elite institutions, such as Williams, Reed, or Carleton.
Is it better to create more charter schools, or vouchers for private schools, or special programs to push along the more elite students, and their more involved parents?
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The errors affected 4, 735 children, or 13.2% of test takers, who are now eligible for gifted programs, including 2, 037 students who are newly eligible for elite schools that accept students from across the city who scored in the 97th percentile or above.
A. class is roughly 100 students, while most elite programs boast hundreds of students as well as thousands of networked alumni.
In 2005, that brand started targeting Chinese college students at elite universities.
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At the elite Indian engineering colleges students must attend 42 hours of lectures and lab classes each week, twice as much time as the typical MIT undergraduate spends in class.
Looking at English census records since 1800, they picked out names such as Bazalgette and Leschallas and compared them with records of students at elite institutions such as Oxford and Cambridge universities.
Whether it will succeed in burnishing the cultural image of teaching once the economy has recovered, and students at elite universities are once again enticed by the high pay offered elsewhere, seems less likely.
As many as 15% of white students admitted to elite colleges don't meet admissions standards.
Initially, the city said fewer students qualified for the elite, citywide schools.
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He was a Mayfield Fellow at Stanford, an elite group of 12 top engineering students, who went to work at BCG following graduation.
So conventional wisdom is wrong: ordinary students will get an elite education, at least in the quality of the experience, though not necessarily with the same content.
Children take two tests, and spots in the most elite programs usually go only to students with siblings already enrolled or those who score in the 99th percentile, who still must participate in a lottery.
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More than half of those students qualified for the five elite citywide programs by scoring in the 97th percentile or higher.
It is common for elite institutions to place a number of students on their lists even when they have virtually no chance of being seriously considered for admission, Mr. Dick said.
There are few firm consequences for students who don't take the exams, though in New York City, students could lose access to elite middle and high schools that use the exams in admissions decisions.
The first time I interviewed writer Lev Grossman I had just finished reading his excellent fantasy novel, The Magicians, the story of a group of teenage students at Brakebills, an elite private school for magicians.
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For some students, the access to an elite school's network is as critical as the education they expect to receive.
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Universities have reported that firms have been cancelling spots on the annual "milk round" - when employers visit universities to recruit students - or simply focusing on elite institutions.
Many elite schools admitted a record-low percentage of students for the coming fall.
Even if public teacher pay remains low, the upside possibility of elite pre-school pay may cause more college students to consider that career path.
This result is particularly intriguing given common social norms at elite graduate business schools, norms that discourage or prohibit students from sharing their grades with recruiters.
One of the hardest puzzles for mass higher education is how to make those universities that are not part of some such elite, whether formal or informal, concentrate on their students' needs rather than their own position in a pecking order based on research.
The UVA situation illustrated the challenges that major elite universities are having in dealing with a new world in which students can earn even advanced degrees in their pajamas.
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But while it is true that attendance at elite American universities is farther out of reach for lower-income students, it is certainly not the case that a college education is farther out of reach.
Where schools can succeed is worrying less about wins and losses, and about competing with club teams for elite athletes, and promoting sports as what they should be: a chance for students to proudly represent their school.
In practice, unless families have a sibling already enrolled in the school, students need to score in the 99th percentile for a seat in the most elite programs.
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Bronx Science is one of the city's eight elite public high schools that use a single test to determine admissions, drawing 3, 000 students from the five boroughs.
Elite universities offering MOOCs have a major financial incentive to limit academic credit only to registered, paying students and not those following along free online.
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