For lack of a better word, people were living in a bubble; and when they went off to college it burst. In college the culture shock was too much to overcome for many people that they had to drop out, or transfer to community college closer to home, resulting in what came to be expected: another decline in the amount of students graduating from a four-year university, and an increase in those who would never step foot in a classroom again after their first year at college. ... A mixture of people allowed Jericho to rebound from the poor reputation it had received a decade ago to now being a...

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Even at the first-ranked university in the United States, Princeton University, the Ivy League private institution located in New Jersey, women overtake men at 51.6% of the 2013 undergraduate enrollment. ... An increase in potential earnings is the primary motivation for going to college for most, however there is another benefit of going to college. ... This was the first step in reversing the college gender gap. ... Alternatives to college are out there and more and more men are opting for that route as they graduate from high school, giving women the leg up in college admissions. ... Meanw...

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Today, the SAT I play's an important role in young high schools student's college careers. ... Following the war, the Army Alpha was adapted and transformed for the purpose of a college admissions test, (The Big Test: SAT I, p.l) .The first test was experimentally administered to a few thousand college applicants in 1926. ... Many of these colleges, Hampton University in particular, have done away with and do not accept the Accredited College Test (ACT) as means for acceptance any longer. ... For example, in 1999 the College Board reported that the average score for college bound wo...

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Suno is ready to apply for college, but before he goes into college, he must pass the entrance exams for his college. ... According to a College View many students start to question themselves why a college education is important for them, and why furthering their education will benefit them. After they find the answer to their question they start to find opportunities for a college education. (College view). ... Desai's story showed how the young Suno had to excel in his college exams to be accepted into the college that he had applied so; an exam that had created all the pressure from h...

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Now, valedictorian supposedly means the student with the highest GPA or rank, and most of the time these students are not interested in speaking in the farewell ceremony they are only interested for the title. ... Studying is not really a talent it is something every able human has this skill it is only a matter of utilizing this that sets them apart; moreover they don't study to be the NO. 1 in the competition of studying, they study so that they may enter college in the short run and pursue their future career in the long run – their career is not to studying. ...

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Thus, earning a college diploma means acquiring the key to economic and social opportunities. The supreme ambition of every Filipino family, therefore, is to send every child to college regardless of the sacrifices it might entail on the part of at least one of the children, preferably the oldest child, should get a college degree so that he or she can take care of a younger sibling's college education, who in turn can assume the obligation of supporting the next younger sibling's education. ...

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