...before college, the current school schedule holds them back from gaining the amount of knowledge they want. Although early-bird classes and summer classes exist, both exclude students unable to either attend at such an early hour or unable to afford the costs. As one of the students unable to take early-bird classes and summer classes, I have so many classes I want to take that the schedule restricts me from taking. Involving my experience with the student schedule, the current school schedule doesn’t easily allow students to take all the classes that interest them. When planning my freshman schedule, I had to decide between taking choir or taking health or gym, required courses. Having...
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...When students are asked if college composition courses are helpful, the answer may not be on the good side. In Bergmann and Zepernick’s article, “Disciplinarity and Transfer Students’ Perceptions of Learning to Write’”, there were both positive responses and negative responses for composition courses. For example, “students tend to think of writing in English classes as personal and expressive rather than academic or professional” (Bergmann, Zepernick 129). It appears some students view the courses as something that they learn from expressing their own personal views onto a piece of paper. Furthermore, students “reported having gained much of their current writing ability in courses such as history, chemistry, or metallurgy” (Bergmann, Zepernick...
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...College….the Obstacle Course of Higher Education College is not for everyone. However, for those who want a higher education there are many obstacles. High school students often do not realize the looming challenges they are about to come face to face with. For those who are not from a financially well off family they need help paying for their books and college tuition. First time college students also face the issue of not being academically prepared for higher level education by the high school they attended and being responsible for their own problems and tasks. One of the main problems that stands in the way of most people looking to further their education is finding a way to pay for it. College students often have to turn to the dreaded student loan to continue paying...
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...The Honors Program at St. Clair County Community College has been challenging intelligent students and indulging them in the joys of learning for over a decade. This program is not about students being better or smarter than others; it’s about challenging students intellectually on a level that is most suitable for them and their abilities. Honors courses allow students with high abilities to take part in a deeper learning experience and not be dispirited by lectures on concepts they already have a full understanding of. It is in these classes that students are able to meet others who share the same level of passion for that subject; people who are not only taking the class because it is required, but because they are eager to learn. If even one student over the past ten years has benefitted from the Honors Program, then it has been a success by my standards. The effect that honors classes have on students is not one that can be seen or measured, it is purely intellectual and it changes and shapes their minds in a way that might just better them for the rest of their lives. In his graduation speech earlier this year, Michael Brunner spoke about a couple of his honors professors saying that they “not only teach students to understand the required material but comprehend and critically discuss it at a college level.”. I have been in an honors class for less than a month and it has completely changed my outlook on learning. It is because of this that I am excited to wake...
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...Postal Code Mailing Address:________________________, __________, _______________, _______________, __________ (If different) Address Have you attended NPU before? City Province/State Country Postal Code [ ] Yes [ ] No; If yes, please provide your NPU student ID#___________ Have you already entered the U.S.? [ ] Yes [ ] No; If yes, what visa are you holding (F1, F2, B1, H1, etc.)______ - Do you plan to apply for a change of status to F-1? [ ] Yes [ ] No [ ] Yes [ ] No; If yes, what is the last US school attended? _________ - Are you a transfer student (with F1 status)? Institutions attended: Freshman applicants please list your high school attended. All other applicants please list all the postsecondary institutions, e.g. junior college, college, university previously attended from ______ to ______ degree(s) earned ___________ 1. 2. from ______ to ______ degree(s) earned ___________ (For additional education information, please use the space provided at the end of next page or use a separate sheet.) Official Transcripts Submission: 1. All official transcripts must be submitted for full acceptance of admission. 2. For graduating seniors, a current official transcript is...
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...Readiness for College Students need to be ready academically before entering college. The question arises are students prepared enough from high school before attending college. There are a lot of students that according to statistics are not ready for college classes. When a student enters college right out of high school the majority of the students have to take two or more remedial classes. Students are not able to take the needed college courses at the beginning due to having to take these remedial classes first. the student false confidence for college. the studentReadiness could mean many things when it comes to academics. Some things are student work ethics, or determination, parent or family resources, student personality or persistence. It is the responsibility of not only the student but as well as the school to prepare the student for college. A school’s testing procedure could be considered unethical especially if the school is more concerned with improving their scores which could be reported to the higher level. Test scores could be tweeted to make it appear more appealing on paper. In the long run, this drastically hurts the student’s readiness for college. Other unethical practices could be teachers not fully performing to the student’s individual ability. The teacher may not push the student as hard as necessary once the work is complete. This will further hinder the student by giving the student false confidence for college. All...
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...A welder that is skilled helps other people and businesses by cutting, shaping and joining pieces of steel, aluminum and other metals. Welders also fill in holes and repair cracks in metal. A Welders job is to maintain welding equipment and put on the finishing touches by smoothing and polishing surfaces. I welded when I was a freshman in high school and loved it. My uncle is a welder and was talking to me on my future and he suggested that I should become a welder. There isn’t many women welders out there so it would be cool if I became one. A welder needs to be skilled in many different things such as welding with torches and lasers. They also need to be able to do things around the shop and do blue print readings. To become a welder you...
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...You should consider me to take part in the Pathway to the Baccalaureate Program because it would dramatically improve my chance at succeeding in my future career objectives. My primary motivation that led me to seek out this program originated from my desire to receive a bachelor’s degree, a degree that neither of my parent’s have attained. The Pathway Program appealed to me as it would help me reach my goal of acquiring a bachelor’s degree by easing the transition between high school, the Northern Virginia Community College, and then finally to a four-year university. Additionally, the Pathway Program would give me suggestions of the colleges I am eligible for, which would help to remove the stress that I would otherwise accumulate from applying...
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...Running Head: Grades in non major courses in U.S colleges and Universities Grades in non major courses in U.S colleges and Universities Mohammad Rahman In India, university students, even undergraduates, focus all of their studies on their major field courses. For example, engineering students take all of their courses, every term, in the school of engineering. However, every undergraduate student at the Strayer University is required to take many courses that have little or no relevance to their field of study. Although students graduates from the university with a broader education as a result of these courses, I believe that the curses should be graded other way, and that the grades for these courses for these courses should not become part of students’ GPAs. Anti-evolution, the rise of pseudo sciences, and the renewed interest in the occult, all masquerading as science, are symptomatic of the poor job that is done explicating science as a process and a way of knowing. Disciplinary teaching emphasizes fact over concept. (Brophy, D.A. (2004) Every science discipline should be taught with a process base pervasive from the first to the last day of the course. Science teaching needs be revamped to provide an integrated, non-redundant exposition of the discipline focused on principles of which the theory of evolution is only one. Science must to be related both to technology and society. Teaching has to be directed to elicit the desired ends of education and not be regarded...
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...General education are classes that consist of English, History, Science, and Mathematics. Think about the main core of subjects you studied in high school; these are the courses that make-up most of the general education courses at most colleges and universities. No matter what major you pursue, you will have to take at least one or more of these classes in each of the major academic disciplines. Depending on the focus of the university you attend, you may also need to take courses in religion, culture, music or a foreign language. So the main question is should general education requirements be necessary to graduate college? I would have to say no for a variety of reasons. Most of these classes do not have anything to do with many of the majors students elect to study in college and are basically pointless. For some students, general education courses are extremely confusing as many require testing into classes or taking multiple pre-requisites before meeting specific requirements. Courses for general education classes also tend to be the hardest to get into as too many students vie for too few classes offered. Colleges on the other hand have plenty of reasons for requiring general education courses. One of them is that many students find that they love a certain field of study as a result of taking a required course. Second, required courses ensure that every college graduate has the same basic set of tools or skills necessary for their success. Colleges want all students to...
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...enroll in Grade 11. After Grade 12, when they graduate in March 2018, they would constitute the first batch of high school students to finish the K-to-12 program. What does this mean in practical terms? It means, for one, that by next year, public schools would have to find extra classrooms, restrooms, teachers, textbooks, etc. to accommodate the new Grade 11 population that should have gone on to freshman college studies in the earlier setup, but which would now remain for another two years in the school. The old school system replaced by K-to-12 leaned for decades on the annual turnaround of graduating students to make way for incoming batches from the lower years to use existing school facilities. This time, the first year of implementation of the added senior high school under K-to-12 gives secondary schools the problem of where to put their Grade 11 classes. The burden is even more acute in public schools, which are mandated by law to carry the extra two years, even as they are more typically deprived of the resources and facilities that private schools enjoy. Private junior high schools, while required to adhere to the minimum requirements of the K-to-12 curriculum, may choose not to offer Grades 11-12, which means their students will either have to find another private school that offers the senior high school years, or enroll in a public high school—further adding to the sudden population bulge in those campuses. While secondary schools grapple with an excess of students...
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...graduate high school looking forward to the next step of their lives at college. For some, they reserve the privilege of receiving large amounts of scholarship money for athletics; for others, they receive a much lesser monetary award for grade point average and ACT or SAT scores. All over the country, college students are praised for being great athletes but are expected to do less academically. For many reasons, collegiate athletes should not be awarded so much individual scholarship money or appraisal for being athletic. Every year, the recruitment of collegiate athletes takes time and effort because coaches have to carefully hand pick the most talented players to represent their university. There are...
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...It’s 8:05 am; the late bell has rung signaling to all that students should be seated in class and ready to learn. Students can be seen slamming their lockers and sprinting to their next class with fear of a tardy slip for being late. But lingering in the hallways is an imaginary disease embedded only in the senior class. The symptoms are well recognized by the faculty; tardiness, little to no work completed in class, turning in assignments late, and an overall lethargic attitude rapidly spread from student to student as the end of the school year nears. Unfortunately, the repercussions of their actions are not as innocent as some seniors like to believe. Senioritis has short-term as well as long-term damage on their academic attainment such as loss of college acceptance, difficulties with college level classes, lack of desire to further education and a continued apathetic attitude towards the end of any undertaking. To understand why senioritis is so destructive to a senior’s future, it should first be identified. Senioritis is defined as an imaginary syndrome attributed to students nearing the end of high school and college, whose symptoms include laziness, procrastination and apathy toward schoolwork. Towards the end of the senior year of high school, many seniors have already been accepted into colleges, have plans to study a certain area or will already have jobs lined up for them when they graduate high school. Many are so focused on the future that the present is no longer...
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...I decided to increase my GPA from 2.5 to 3.0 by the end of this fall 2013 semester. I currently take 4 classes, in which I will come up with a plan to achieve my goal to have a 3.0 by the end of the semester. When students earn a below average grade on examinations or a report card, it does not necessarily mean that they did not study hard enough. There are many intelligent children who do not perform well in school, not because they cannot comprehend classroom lessons, but because of external factors that affect their academic success. Many factors have been identified to influence academic performance whether positively or negatively. One of these factors that the researcher’s identified is the living situation of college students. The living situations that a college student experience are varied due to the diversity of housing options and environments available. Some of the aspects of college student living environments may act as stress factors in students’ lives. The stress related to living situations that college students’ experience has several sources including relationships with roommates, the condition of the rooms, apartments, or houses that students inhabit, the neighborhood, area on campus, and general living environment. These sources of stress undoubtedly have an impact on the student’s academic performance. Academic performance is the evidence how well a student meets standards set out by local government and the institution itself. The extent of student’s...
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...knowledge (even the professionals aren’t safe!), and truth is that graduates need to be ready for this future. High school students should be taught technology as a gateway course. Technology is a part of STEM education, which is needed in much of the future workforce. By 2018, it is projected that 8.65 million STEM jobs are needed, but today’s students do not pursue in these kinds of jobs. As a matter of fact, only 28% of freshman declare an interest in the fields and only 57% of those students continue to study it after graduation. At the same time, the demand for those jobs grow faster than others by more than 7% because it is beginning to be more pervasive in daily life. As a result, it becomes clear that the economy is becoming more reliant on people who major in the disciples of STEM....
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