In China, Peking University, founded in 1898, is generally ranked as the country's top school.
The top school on the career prospects list: Columbia Law School in New York City.
INSEAD, France's top school, saw a 47% rise in applications for the current year's class.
Some women will forgo a place at a top school for a full scholarship at a lesser school.
Best example: Harvard, which remains our top school with a five-year M.
The resulting squeeze has raised the stakes for kids and parents, many of whom see the sport as a ticket to a top school.
Now government statisticians have cross referenced GCSE and AS-level results with degree results, looking specifically if top school exam results are accurate predictors of a degree at 2:1 or above.
"Guys on Wall Street would sell the Hamptons house and their art collection before they would take their kids out of a top school, " says one Morgan Stanley banker.
Educated at Turkey's top school, Robert College in Istanbul, Mr Cem studied law in Lausanne and politics in Paris before becoming a columnist for the left-leaning daily newspaper, Cumhuriyet (the Republic).
The findings of the study come just weeks after a leading Scottish businessman caused a furore by telling pupils at a top school they should leave Scotland if they want to be successful.
So we added 30% to the Coldwell Banker figures (see: Methodology) to come up with a more realistic price for a 2, 500-square-foot house with nice amenities, and which is located in a top school district.
High schoolers and younger students and their parents see the commonplace success that athletes enjoy in college admissions, and kids understand that athletic prowess makes them far more likely to be admitted to a top school than does academic excellence alone.
In its just-released book, The Best 296 Business Schools, the New York-based test prep and educational services company dubs Stanford the top school in a career rating that takes into account statistical information supplied by the schools and surveys it collected from 19, 000 students who attend the schools listed in its book.
John Kerry went to a boarding school in Switzerland, to a top private school in New Hampshire and then to Yale, where he studied political science and joined the secret and elite Skull and Bones club, just as George W Bush did two years later.
So by rewarding some of these states submitting applications today, by extending the Race to the Top for states, by launching a Race to the Top among school districts, and by applying the principles of Race to the Top to other federal programs, we'll build on this success.
After all, as Leonhardt points out, many top business school graduates start their careers with large consulting firms.
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But with that essay and a focus on leadership skills, Blackman's client got into a top five school.
In a sign of the times, Turkish and English are the languages of instruction at a top private school in Irbil.
It may seem ambitious to go from a community college to an Ivy League or Top 25 school, but it can and does happen.
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The address positioned them to get their 9-year-old daughter, Happy, into a top local school called Nanyang Primary, where core subjects are taught in Mandarin.
Tsinghua University, China's top tech school, churns out brains--and business ideas.
The market for top high school talent is a national marketplace, and you never know when one key signing or transfer could swing the balance of power.
The client was particularly nervous about taking that chance on his essay because his college grade point average (GPA) was only 3.0--not what's needed to get into a top business school.
But they were daunted by a presenter at their top public school choice, who told hundreds of assembled parents that once sibling placements had been factored in, there were 34 available slots.
With his contract up in three months, he is being given one last chance to prove his worth by evaluating a top high school prospect who the Braves are considering taking with their first overall draft pick.
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Colston's Girls' School was the top-performing maintained school in Bristol at GCSE in 2012.
Moreover, her nonacademic likeability and genuinely strong interest for Columbia as her top-choice school made her a good fit for Columbia.
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This is a woman with an Educational Doctorate from a top-notch school.
They see a degree from a top-tier school as one of the few ways to give their kids a jump on the competition.
After distributing awards to Minnesota top teachers and school administrators, Gov. Mark Dayton hit back at those who in his view would tear educators down.
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