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New Jersey Scholarships

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Upward Bound Scholarship This is for $5,000 and is for incoming freshmen currently enrolled in a New Jersey Upward Bound program. In addition to a cancer diagnosis, all applicants must be enrolled, or be planning to enroll, full time in an accredited college or university. The deadline is January 15th. Learn more here.

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University of Southern California: Notable Alumni You Should Know

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After earning a bachelor’s degree at Dartmouth College, Rhymes enrolled at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and earned her MFA with a focus on television. And Lucas was also a transfer student. But then he transferred to USC to study opera. How did USC shape Rhimes? That helped Rhimes launch her record-breaking career.

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Is Yield Protection Real?

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Yield is the percentage of accepted students who choose to enroll. This means 2 in 3 accepted students choose to enroll elsewhere. News & World Report college rankings, which dropped the metric from its formula in 2003. You know who's going to enroll if admitted. That's yield. Why is yield important?

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Weekly Update: June 6

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BIGGEST COLLEGE-RELATED NEWS OF THE WEEK ART SCHOOLS SUFFER FROM TOUGH ECONOMIC TIMES AND LOW ENROLLMENT Columbia College Chicago and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, two well-respected arts schools, have both come into economic difficulties recently. Listings with no degree requirements have gone up 4% over the last 4 years.

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Prison Education Programs: Facts and Statistics

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4] Check The top reasons incarcerated adults enrolled in an academic program in 2014 were to learn more about a subject of interest and increase job opportunities. [5] Note Reference [5] Incarcerated adults' reasons for not enrolling in an academic program varied widely. How Effective Is Prison Education?

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7 Great Statement of Purpose Examples + Analysis 2023

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Ironically, I never engaged with the stories most Christians hold dearest until I enrolled in my first religious studies course, Christian history, as a first-year at Grinnell College. We had arrived in the US from Chile less than a year earlier when my father was transferred to lead his firm’s new telecommunications subsidiary.