At a time when some prestigious schools are experimenting with deans from the corporate world, for Stanford continuity was the key.
After California voters passed a measure banning racial considerations at the University of California system, minority enrollment at the most prestigious schools fell.
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Those would help them get into prestigious elementary schools, prestigious junior highs, prestigious high schools and eventually prestigious universities to guarantee a successful career.
Many of the temp attorneys on the Citigroup case graduated from law school in the past five years, some of them from prestigious schools like NYU and Georgetown.
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While this may sound unfair to the better-heeled, Klingman argues that since prestigious schools are in such demand they could drive up prices even higher, financing those less well off still more.
It's the latest in a series of large investments in the university, particularly gifts that bolster its graduate offerings and entice students who might otherwise head to the Ivy League or other prestigious schools.
In the filing, Kirby McInerney says it rejected 75% of the lawyers it considered hiring on a temporary basis and sought out graduates of prestigious schools with specialized training in the collateralized debt obligations at the core of the complaint.
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More than 5, 000 French people died, many of them graduates of the country's most prestigious engineering schools.
Academic achievement would play second fiddle to the character and manliness thought to be inculcated by prestigious boarding schools.
In Germany cosy ties between religious and political authorities have been shaken by news of abuse at prestigious Catholic schools and monasteries.
His three sons attend prestigious private schools, but he has only one home, in the affluent Johannesburg suburb of Bryanston, and no yacht or plane.
Probably not, because not all of us are born with two moms, or the the resources necessary to attend prestigious private schools and participate in application padding programs.
Mr. Rose's aim is to "keep the costs down, but yet still have an educational model and a facility that compares to Country Day, " one of Detroit's most prestigious private schools.
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Fifty-five percent of the Class of 2011 had no full-time work nine months after graduating, he said, and even prestigious law schools apparently have turned to hiring their own grads to polish their placement records.
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Among other things, Globacom sponsors young, talented and upcoming African footballers to the prestigious Manchester United Soccer Schools to hone their skills.
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The prestigious award of best schools' drama was presented to Scene: United, a hard-hitting drama looking at the effects of sectarian violence on young people in Northern Ireland.
When the state does its job well, that is fine: in Japan, students pay companies such as Benesse, one of the world's biggest educational firms, to get them through the entrance exams of the most prestigious state-run schools.
If you had had a meeting with any of them as a Google hiring manager before they joined the Googleplex, you would have blown away: Ivy League and other prestigious colleges and graduate schools, Rhodes Scholars, McKinsey stints, times working for Larry Summers as Chief-of-Staff in DC.
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The lack of difference in value between state schools and the more prestigious private colleges is compelling.
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Of the 40 finalists in this year's Intel Science Talent Search, the nation's most prestigious science competition, 35 hail from public schools.
However, it is widely believed that the philosophy of Hojjatieh survives, espoused by numerous theological schools in Iran, the most prestigious being the Hojjatieh-founded Haqqani school in Qom.
A-levels than those in state schools, went on to the most prestigious universities and ended up in the best jobs.
Obama was born in Hawaii, lived for a time as a child in Indonesia, received both his undergrad and law degrees from Ivy League schools and taught law at the equally prestigious University of Chicago.
By far the highest value the analysts assigned to companies whose CEO was white and from a prestigious university, followed by those from second-tier schools who were black, and second-tier schools who were white.
The first of these new graduate business schools will open as soon as next year, at the prestigious Hitotsubashi University.
Scholars from around the Islamic world traveled to the oasis city to study at the prestigious University of Sankore, which had some 25, 000 students and 180 Koranic schools in its heyday.
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