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17 Questions You’re Forgetting to Ask Prospective Colleges

Grown & Flown

Some schools require that a student write a thesis in order to get Latin honors (cum laude, magna, summa cum laude) no matter what a student’s GPA is, some do not. These details may not weigh heavily on your ultimate decision, but are definitely important to know going in. Are graduate students teaching?

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The Difference Between Growth and Contraction: Meeting the Market Where It Is

Ruffaloni

Imagine just being able to capture the 25 percent who indicate that they will “definitely” enroll at the first institution that responds. Today’s students also expect an admissions timeline that is hard for many institutions to contemplate. Source: 2022 Online Student Recruitment Report. Ask for a free consultation with us.

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Maximizing the Enrollment Impact of Your Media Spend Using Full-Funnel Attribution

Ruffaloni

Graduate students are more likely than ever before to be applying to multiple programs, and more schools are adding graduate programs every day, adding to the competitive situation. If you do, does that mean you know which lead sources result in the most program graduates? 6 percent). What does this all mean?

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Chemistry Extracurricular Activity Strategy for Sophomores

The Koppelman Group

There are probably some requirements and paperwork, and you definitely need to have a teacher on your team. An ideal chemistry-related internship is in a lab, or working in support of a professor or graduate students research. We also encourage all of our students to have at least one paying job, before applying to college.

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After Protest Over Contract, UC San Diego Graduate Workers Face Student Misconduct Charges

BestColleges

Graduate student workers at UC San Diego interrupted an alumni event to draw attention to unresolved contract issues. Students claim the university is undermining the contracts agreed upon in December following a six-week strike. student in biomedical sciences at UC San Diego, told Best Colleges. "We

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College Admissions Glossary of Terms

Admissions Village

Colleges typically do not have graduate students. Core Curriculum: Typically there are types of courses or particular classes that each student must take which are often called distribution or general education requirements. Extracurricular Activities (EC’s): How a student spends their time outside of the classroom.

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Cruising Across Campus: How One Self-Driving Car Company Is Helping Students Get Where They Need to Go

BestColleges

In December, the self-driving car company Cruise launched a first-of-its-kind partnership with the University of San Francisco (USF), a private, Jesuit university in California with some 6,000 undergraduate and 3,600 graduate students. At first, a whole lot of students were pretty hesitant to try them out. "At to 5:30 a.m.