Word: tiere
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...California, for example, minority college enrollment has remained steady under the new system, but has tailed off at top schools, such as UC Berkeley and UCLA, and in the most competitive graduate programs. This phenomenon is known as "cascading" - dropping large chunks of minority populations down from top-tier to medium- and lower-tier schools. But it also has its upside: Students don't require as many remedial courses to help them catch up with other students, and middle-tier colleges have upped their recruitment efforts in poor areas. They now woo a wider field of students from poor districts...
Applicants must write seven lengthy essays; if they're in the top tier, they're invited for a four-day trial...
...Harvard teaching practical legal skills, certainly not," Isbell says. "None of the top tiered schools do. The mid-tier school are much better at 'black letter' law and the mechanics of writing a memo or conducting legal research...
...Bulldogs are leading the second tier of Ivy League teams and are looking to crack the Dartmouth-Harvard-Penn stronghold. Yale's only league losses have come against those top three...
Yale first began to offer degrees in African-American studies in 1969. It is technically known as a "program," occupying the administrative tier below the level of "departments" at Yale...