Also interesting: you can now list more specific information in your work and extracurricular experiences.
Along with the stress of homework assignments and extracurricular activities, unfortunately some students bear an additional burden -- bullying.
In studies, she has shown that as early as high school, women begin pressuring themselves to excel at work and extracurricular activities.
He took both schoolwork and extracurricular activities more seriously, he told me.
Admissions committees consider all of this seamlessly with other factors, such as academic and extracurricular talents and skills, as well as subjective personal qualities.
Moreover, empirically successful programs like debate might enjoy a Renaissance in popularity if their fundraising could be liberated from both the regular school budget and extracurricular budget.
High school students in particular are facing greater academic pressure and college competition than ever before, and all those AP classes and extracurricular activities can eat into sleep time.
These undergraduate engineering students have organized their research, coursework, and extracurricular activities to find solutions to some of the most important problems facing the Nation in the 21st century.
The Center offers young people diverse, educational and extracurricular enrichment activities as well as support to help prepare them to graduate from high school and to pursue college and meaningful careers.
Tonight, Jan. 23, is the night the board of the Westerville City Schools in suburban Columbus, Ohio, is scheduled to vote on whether to eliminate all sports and extracurricular activities, beginning in 2012-13.
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But to meet admissions standards for Ivy League schools, Luke had to take such a heavy load of courses, advanced-placement exams and extracurricular activities that he worked seven days a week for almost two years.
As college degrees become more widespread, the graduate degree will be more important from an educational perspective for getting the best careers, and extracurricular experience working or volunteering will play an even greater role.
But having sports and other extracurricular activities available to students makes school a place that is more than drudgery, and perhaps generates a little more enthusiasm for math and science during the day, knowing doing well allows students the privilege of playing basketball after school.
They let the cat out of the bag only because there were all these rumors about JFK and other extracurricular activities.
The recommendation was for sports only, not bands and other extracurricular activities.
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The bright side is that a large portion of the urban family income is being spent on such things as special schools, tutors, computers, piano lessons and other extracurricular activities for the kids.
James Kilpatrick, president of a local commercial real-estate firm, was so keen to attend Wharton's executive program that three years ago the 36-year-old moved to downtown San Francisco from the East Bay to be closer to campus and its extracurricular activities.
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We want to improve the environment and facilities here, we want to develop a programme of extracurricular activities and we need to invest heavily in marketing the school to attract new pupils.
Mr. Perelman was also responsible for all of their daughter's educational, medical, extracurricular and camp costs, according to court documents.
And now, as the tepid Obama recovery shows no signs of increasing government coffers, schools are relying even more on donated funds raised through parenting groups to salvage key academic programs, buy supplies, and provide for extracurricular activities.
Peek inside the backpack of Zhou Tao, a middle school student at Beijing's Shijingshan school, and you'll find four grammar texts, three math texts, one chemistry book, two books on physics, five on English, three on political science, not to mention an array of extracurricular and tutorial books.
Presumably, the idea of school sports is that it gives everyone in school (and homeschoolers, in the case of Duval County) a chance to participate in an extracurricular activity and, as such, give students and their families a deeper connection to the institution.
You'll also make a few game drives each day with expert guides, and have time for extracurricular activities like sightseeing flights in vintage open-cockpit biplanes, visits to local villages, fishing, and much, much more.
So I could focus on their values, exposing them to extracurricular activities and making them confident.
At 14, I told Dad I was too busy with my extracurricular activities and friends to stay over with him anymore.
For all the extracurricular bells and whistles this system will boast, gamers still want to play great games that you can't experience anywhere else.
But at most business schools, even those hosting competitions, the games are considered an extracurricular activity and students are not awarded credits for taking part.
But when it comes down to paying bills and for essentials or extracurricular activities, all one can say is "sorry kids, no baseball this year"!
My parents had worked hard to seize opportunities in their lives, saving enough money to provide me with extracurricular opportunities and eventually hire me a tutor.
The high court identified five factors -- facilities, staff, faculty, extracurricular activities and transportation -- to be used to measure a school system's compliance with the mandate of Brown.
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