For a subject such as economics, applicants might have an A grade in A-level economics, but some universities might also require pupils to have a high grade at maths A-level as well.
Mostly though, merit aid is academic in nature and if you have the grade, you get the aid.
They are aimed at seven to 18 year olds who have reached Grade 2 or above on the piano.
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Those who are accepted typically have undergraduate grade-point averages of more than 3.6 and Graduate Record Examination scores exceeding 1, 200, he said.
Since a lot of merit aid awards are based on GPA, and typically the criteria is 3.75 or higher, the potential exists for the kid with the 3.71 to NOT have the grade, and NOT get the aid.
Examples of hearts-dominant founders profiled in the book include Guy Laliberte, who parlayed his vision for a revamped circus into the billion dollar Cirque du Soleil giant and Doris Christopher, the home-economics teacher who believed every home chef should have professional grade tools.
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Ratemds.com and other sites let patients anonymously praise or knock doctors, but the reviews can be sparse or defamatory. hmos have used claims data to grade doctors but have been accused of recommending only doctors who charge the least.
And the experts said examiners might have allowed "grade inflation" to happen without meaning to.
Kansas State University canceled Thursday classes, as have dozens of grade schools in the Plains states.
They argued that otherwise there would have been "grade inflation without any academic justification".
To be admitted to the group, students need to have a minimum grade point average of 3.5.
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In school, all of my teachers from kindergarten through 5th grade have helped me be a better person.
The bathrooms used to have builder-grade cherry cabinetry, laminate counters and cream-colored tile.
Both banks have investment-grade ratings, while Sekerbank's debt is rated as speculative grade.
Only 18% of those who have completed the assessment have made the grade.
Someone like Coca Cola Hellenic would expect to have an investment grade, and at the top end of the investment grade as well, rating.
The tests are the same for both primary and secondary school teacher trainees, who must also have achieved a grade C or above in GCSE maths and English.
"Other exam boards have changed their grade boundaries, as they do most years, but it's the unprecedented scale of AQA's changes in English between the January exams and the June exams that we see as unfair, " he said.
The forthcoming UNESCO Education For All Global Monitoring Report estimates that some 61 million primary school - age children still have no access to school, while 250 million children who should have reached fourth grade cannot read or write whether they are in school or not.
According to the old guidelines a patient with a grade 1 concussion may have been allowed to return to play if they were free of symptoms within 15 minutes, while a patient with a grade 3 concussion may have been recommended to sit out for up to 2 weeks.
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Santos' economic policies have won Colombia investment grade status from the three leading rating agencies but the achievements have been tarnished by a recent increase in violence by leftist rebels, including attacks on oil companies.
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Some have more students in the C-D grade range and have therefore been affected more than others.
In Shanghai, for instance, rents this year have increased 18% for grade-A and grade-B buildings in the popular Puxi district as vacancies have fallen to a ten-year low of around 7%, according to Jones Lang LaSalle, a global property consultant.
But in order to make the grade they have to cost less to manufacture than their predecessors did.
India boasts 15 of the 23 developers worldwide that are reported to have attained the highest grade, CMM level 5.
What No Child Left Behind says is that we are going to have our kids on grade level by 2014.
In building the motorway, planners made sure that Northern Ireland became the first region, outside England, to have a motorway-grade road.
Ministers also said it was not acceptable that childcare professionals are not required to have at least GCSE grade C in English and maths.
For one, liquidity remains strong in the corporate bond market, as spreads in both high yield and high grade corporates have remained relatively tight.
Bonds issued by investment-grade firms have tightened against Treasuries by 80 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) since October 15th, their widest level.
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