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UC Irvine to Launch Pre-Health Professional Development Program to Support Students from Underserved Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million grant from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information – will select undergraduates for training, advising, and support to increase readiness for medical school. These graduates are most likely to follow careers in service to poor and marginalized communities, as 95 percent of our PRIME-LC alumni do,” Vega said.

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Columbia University Reaches Out to HBCUs for Fellowship Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Admission into an SPS master’s degree program does not automatically mean admission into the fellowship. and countries including Jamaica and Kenya — have gone on to a host of varying opportunities, such as medical school, doctorates, Goldman Sachs, the NBA, and Disney.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students know that if they successfully complete this program, they are guaranteed admission to an affiliated four-year institution. The transfer rate is 85% for students within three years of admission to EPW. Espiritu says EPW creates a sense of belonging in the engineering program and in the profession. or a graduate GPA of 3.0;

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Harnessing the Power of Technology for Effective Charter School Operations

Parchment

Technology and Admissions: Streamlining Enrollment Procedures For directors of admissions, technology offers a robust solution to managing the complex process of student enrollment. These platforms also offer real-time updates, ensuring that all stakeholders are kept in the loop throughout the admission process.

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Elite University Presidents: Most Hated Men (and Women) on Campus

Higher Education Inquirer

Instead, the administration has focused on expanding its brand and maintaining its status as an elite institution, often prioritizing donor preferences and legacy admissions over efforts to make education more accessible. Legacy admissions, a practice entrenched at many of these elite schools, also came under fire during the hearings.

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Use Social Listening to Inform a Student Journey Map

Campus Sonar

Beginning with their first experience of your campus’s brand, you can chart their journey as they decide to apply to your institution, matriculate, graduate, and ultimately become alumni and donors. Complete a degree and become a campus alumni. Alumni magazines Fundraising solicitations. Admissions. Admissions.

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A teamwork approach to longitudinal research in a premed program (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Competition for medical school admission is intense (with an approximate 40 percent acceptance rate). Those from URM and nontraditional groups (those who spent more time than a gap year between undergraduate and medical school) comprise a small percentage of practicing physicians and medical students.