USA INDUSTRIES: October 2015

Saturday, 31 October 2015

Bowdoin College

Bowdoin College is a private liberal arts college located in the coastal Maine town of Brunswick. Founded in 1794, the college currently enrolls 1,839 students, and has been coeducational since 1971. Bowdoin offers 33 majors and four additional minors, and has a student–faculty ratio of 9:1. Notable alumni include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Brackett Reed, Franklin Pierce, and Joshua Chamberlain.

Bowdoin is consistently ranked as one of the top 10 liberal arts colleges in the US, and was tied with Pomona as the fifth-best liberal arts college in the U.S. in the 2015 U.S. News & World Report rankings.

Bowdoin is located on the shores of Casco Bay and the Androscoggin River, 12 miles (19 km) north of Freeport, Maine, and 28 miles (45 km) north of Portland, Maine. In addition to its Brunswick campus, Bowdoin also owns a 118-acre (478,000 m²) coastal studies center on Orr's Island and a 200-acre (809,000 m²) scientific field station on Kent Island in the Bay of Fundy.

Contents

1 History

1.1 Founding and 19th century

1.2 Twentieth century

1.3 Recent developments

2 Academics

2.1 Rankings

2.2 Admissions

3 Student life

4 Postgraduate placement

5 Student organizations

5.1 Media and publications

5.2 A cappella

5.3 Other

6 Environmental record

6.1 Commitment to action on climate change

6.2 Energy profile

6.3 Energy investments

7 Campus

8 Athletics

8.1 Facilities

9 Sustainability

10 Bowdoin alumni

11 Bowdoin in literature and film

12 Presidents of Bowdoin

13 References

14 Further reading

15 External links

History

Founding and 19th century

Bowdoin College, circa 1845. Lithograph by Fitz Hugh Lane

Bowdoin College was chartered in 1794 by Governor Samuel Adams of Massachusetts, of which Maine was then a district, and was named for former Massachusetts governor James Bowdoin, whose son James Bowdoin III was an early benefactor. At the time of its founding, it was the easternmost college in the United States. It is thought that the Bowdoin seal, created in 1798 by Joseph Callender, was a sun because it was the first college in the United States to see the sunrise.

Bowdoin came into its own in the 1820s, a decade in which Maine became an independent state as a result of the Missouri Compromise and the college graduated a number of its most famous alumni, including future United States President Franklin Pierce, class of 1824, and writers Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both of whom graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1825.

Bowdoin College Chapel, 2014

From its founding, Bowdoin enjoyed a reputation for academic rigor, and "catered very largely to the elite from the state of Maine." During the first half of the 19th century, Bowdoin became known for its "exacting" admissions requirements, which included, in 1854, a certificate of "good moral character" as well as knowledge of Latin and Ancient Greek, geography, algebra and the major works of Cicero, Xenophon, Virgil and Homer.

Bowdoin's connections to the Civil War have given rise to a quip that the war "began and ended" in Brunswick. Harriet Beecher Stowe, "the little lady who started this big war", started writing her influential anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin in Bowdoin's Appleton Hall while her husband was teaching at the College, and Brigadier General (and Brevet Major General) Joshua Chamberlain, a Bowdoin alumnus and professor, was responsible for receiving the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox Court House in 1865. Chamberlain, a Medal of Honor recipient who later served as governor of Maine, adjutant-general of Maine, and president of Bowdoin, distinguished himself at Gettysburg, where he led the 20th Maine in its valiant defense of Little Round Top.

The college has other Civil War ties as well: Major General Oliver Otis Howard, class of 1850, led the Freedmen's Bureau after the war and later founded Howard University; Massachusetts Governor John A. Andrew, class of 1837, was responsible for the formation of the 54th Massachusetts; and William P. Fessenden 1823 and Hugh McCulloch 1827 both served as Secretary of the Treasury during the Lincoln Administration. After the war, Bowdoin contended that a higher percentage of its alumni fought in the war than that of any other college in the North—and not only for the Union. In fact, Confederate President Jefferson Davis held an honorary degree from Bowdoin, which he received while United States Secretary of War in 1858. President Ulysses S. Grant, too, was given an honorary degree from the college in 1865. All told, seventeen Bowdoin alumni attained the rank of brigadier general during the Civil War, including James Deering Fessenden and Francis Fessenden; Ellis Spear, class of 1858, who served as Chamberlain's second-in-command at Gettysburg; and Charles Hamlin, class of 1857, son of Vice President Hannibal Hamlin.

Twentieth century

Bowdoin was also the Medical School of Maine from 1821 to 1921

Although Bowdoin's Medical School of Maine closed its doors in 1921, the College is currently known for its particularly strong programs in the natural sciences. One illustrious alumnus was Dr. Augustus Stinchfield, who received his M.D. in 1868 and went on to become one of the co-founders of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was asked to join the two Mayo brothers' private medical practice in 1892. In 1915, the remaining partners in the then private practice embraced the creation of the non-profit Mayo Clinic. While perhaps Bowdoin's better-known alumnus in the sciences is the controversial entomologist-turned-sexologist Alfred Kinsey, class of 1916, the College's reputation in this area was cemented in large part by the Arctic explorations of Admiral Robert E. Peary, class of 1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898.

View of the campus from Coles Tower (constructed as the "Senior Center"), the second tallest building in Maine

Peary led the first successful expedition to the North Pole in 1908, and MacMillan, a member of Peary's crew, became famous in his own right as he explored Greenland, Baffin Island and Labrador in the schooner Bowdoin between 1908 and 1954. Bowdoin's Peary–MacMillan Arctic Museum honors the two explorers, and the College's mascot, the Polar Bear, was chosen in 1913 to honor MacMillan, who donated a particularly large specimen to his alma mater in 1917.

Following in the footsteps of President Pierce and House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed, class of 1860, several 20th century Bowdoin graduates have assumed prominent positions in national government while representing the Pine Tree State. Wallace H. White, Jr., class of 1899, served as Senate Minority Leader from 1944–1947 and Senate Majority Leader from 1947–1949; George J. Mitchell, class of 1954, served as Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995 before assuming a prominent role in the Northern Ireland peace process; and William Cohen, class of 1962, spent twenty-five years in the House and Senate before being appointed Secretary of Defense in the Clinton Administration. Maine's First Congressional District has been christened the "Bowdoin seat" because of its long occupation by graduates of the College. A total of eleven Bowdoin graduates have ascended to the Maine governorship, and three graduates of the College currently sit on the state's highest court.

Over the last several decades, Bowdoin College has modernized dramatically. In 1970, it became one of a very limited number of selective schools to make the SAT optional in the admissions process, and in 1971, after nearly 180 years as a small men's college, Bowdoin admitted its first class of women. Bowdoin also phased out fraternities in the late 1990s, replacing them with a system of college-owned social houses.

Recent developments

$20.8 million renovations of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (built in 1894), completed in 2007

In 2001, Barry Mills, class of 1972, was appointed as the fifth alumnus president of the College.

On January 18, 2008, Bowdoin announced that it would be eliminating loans for all new and current students receiving financial aid, replacing those loans with grants beginning with the 2008–2009 academic year. President Mills stated, "Some see a calling in such vital but often low paying fields such as teaching or social work. With significant debt at graduation, some students will undoubtedly be forced to make career or education choices not on the basis of their talents, interests, and promise in a particular field, but rather on their capacity to repay student loans. As an institution devoted to the common good, Bowdoin must consider the fairness of such a result."

In February 2009, following a $10 million donation by Subway Sandwiches co-founder and alumnus Peter Buck, class of 1952, the college completed a $250-million capital campaign. Additionally, the college has also recently completed major construction projects on the campus, including a significant renovation of the college's art museum and a new fitness center named after Peter Buck.

Academics

Bowdoin's archetypal Hubbard Hall, once the College's library

Rankings

University rankings

National

Forbes 14

Global

Liberal arts colleges

U.S. News & World Report 5

Bowdoin is consistently ranked among the top ten liberal arts colleges in the United States by U.S. News & World Report. In the 2014 edition of the rankings, Bowdoin ranks fourth.In 2006, Newsweek described Bowdoin as a "New Ivy", one of a number of elite colleges and universities outside of the Ivy League.[15] Bowdoin is also part of the SAT optional movement for undergraduate admission. Admission to Bowdoin has been deemed "most selective" by U.S. News, and the college has an acceptance rate of 14.5%. Bowdoin was the first college to be named "School of the Year" by College Prowler.

The Government & Legal Studies Department, whose prominent professors include Paul Franco and Richard E. Morgan, was ranked the top small college political science program in the world by researchers at the London School of Economics in 2003. Government & Legal Studies was the most popular major for every graduating class between 2000 and 2009. Other departments are also strong, including economics, the natural sciences, English, and Romance Languages.

Bowdoin Chapel during the late spring

Course distribution requirements were abolished in the 1970s, but were reinstated by a faculty majority vote in 1981, as a result of an initiative by oral communication and film professor Barbara Kaster. She insisted that distribution requirements would ensure students a more well-rounded education in a diversity of fields and therefore present them with more career possibilities. The requirements of at least two courses in each of the categories of Natural Sciences/Mathematics, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Humanities/Fine Arts, and Foreign Studies (including languages) took effect for the Class of 1987 and have been gradually amended since then. Current requirements require one course each in: Natural Sciences, Quantitative Reasoning, Visual and Performing Arts, International Perspectives and Exploring Social Differences. A small writing-intensive course, called a First Year Seminar, is also required.

In 1990, the Bowdoin faculty voted to change the four-level grading system to the traditional A, B, C, D and F system. The previous system, consisting of high honors, honors, pass and fail, was devised primarily to de-emphasize the importance of grades and to reduce competition. In 2002, the faculty decided to change the grading system so that it incorporated plus and minus grades.

Other prominent Bowdoin faculty include (or have included): Edville Gerhardt Abbott, Charles Beitz, John Bisbee, Paul Chadbourne, Thomas Cornell, Kristen R. Ghodsee, Eddie Glaude, Joseph E. Johnson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Elliott Schwartz, and Scott Sehon

University of Winchester

The University of Winchester is a public new university based in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It received the power to award its own Research Degrees in August 2008. Winchester is a historic cathedral city and the ancient capital of Wessex and the Kingdom of England. .

History
The main building of the University of Winchester
The origins of the University of Winchester date back to 1840 when the Winchester Diocesan Training School was founded as a Church of England foundation for the training of elementary schoolmasters. The school was initially quite small, located in a house at 27 St Swithun Street, Winchester. In 1847 the school moved to Wolvesey, the Bishop’s Palace, where it became Winchester Training College. Following an outbreak of cholera at Wolvesey a new building (now the main building on the university's King Alfred Campus) was established for the college in 1862, on land granted by the cathedral at West Hill, Winchester. The college was renamed King Alfred's College in 1928.

King Alfred's College trained thousands of teachers, at first men only, and then women too from 1960 onwards. Following changes in UK government policy towards further and higher education in the early 1970s, the College looked for partners to merge with and also sought to diversify its provision. Its educational partner, the University of Southampton, was lukewarm about offering other degrees, and the College sought approval for its own BEd and then BA degrees from the Council for National Academic Awards . Interdisciplinary degrees in History and English with Drama, Archaeology and American Studies were the first offered. Further programmes followed in the 1980s, but it was only when the college expanded in the early 1990s following CNAA approval for a modular degree programme that a large number of new fields of study grew at undergraduate level. At the same time Masters programmes were approved alongside an MEd programme. With the CNAA's demise in 1992, the College found itself once again accredited by the University of Southampton, resuming a partnership broken off 18 years earlier.

When in 1995 the UK government published criteria by which colleges of higher education could become universities, King Alfred's under its Principal, John Dickinson[disambiguation needed], set itself the target of becoming a university by 2005 by first acquiring Taught and then later Research Degree Awarding Powers.

Paul Light, Principal from 2000, led the institution through the successful application for Taught Degree Awarding Powers in 2003 and a change of name to University College Winchester in 2004. His leadership culminated in the award of university title in 2005, achieving the target set 10 years earlier and entitling him to be the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of Winchester. In August 2008 the University was granted Research Degree Awarding Powers
Campus

The King Alfred Campus

The main University Campus, King Alfred, is located close to the city centre of Winchester. Some of the buildings on this campus are named after former staff or governors. The Tom Atkinson and Herbert Jarman buildings are named after former staff and the Kenneth Kettle and Fred Wheeler Buildings are named after long-standing Governors. Others are named after Anglo-Saxon saints: St Alphege, St Edburga, St Grimbald and St Swithun and St Elizabeth's. The Martial Rose Library is named after a former Principal. A subsidiary campus, home to the Winchester Business School, is located a short distance away at the West Downs site.

The Campus suffers from limited parking. This has been partly mitigated by a park and ride bus service, but parking continues to be a problem for staff and students.

Recent and future campus development
Major redevelopment has taken place in recent years to modernise the campus. In 2007 work finished on the University Centre on site of the former refectory, at a cost of £9 million. The building includes a new Student Union as well as catering facilities, main reception, a bookshop, a mini-mart convenience store and a social learning space in the WiFi equipped Learning Café. It was designed by architects Design Engine.

In 2010 a new several storey student residence, Queens Road, was completed. In 2012 St. Alphage, a new teaching block which contains state of the art teaching spaces was opened. Work also finished on providing the University library with six new private study rooms for student use. In 2013, the Burma Road Student Village finished construction, providing the university with five blocks that make up a third student village. In 2013 the Kenneth Kettle building was converted into a second social learning space. Plans are underway to modernise the remaining buildings on campus.

The redevelopment of the University’s sports grounds at Bar End in Winchester was completed in 2008 after Sport England formally pledged the £908,514 funding required for the project’s completion, in partnership with Winchester City Council. The facilities at Bar End include an Olympic standard 400m eight-lane athletics track with supporting field events, an all-weather hockey and general sports pitch, floodlighting and an extended pavilion.

Rankings
In the Times and The Sunday Times University Guide 2014 Winchester was identified as making the second biggest leap up the league table, rising 18 places from the previous year’s ranking. Winchester is ranked as the 10th best university in the South East and equal seventh for the award of best modern university. The Complete University Guide 2014 showed a seven place rise from 76th to 69th out of 124 institutions. In their 2014 rankings The Guardian found the University of Winchester to be the fifth fastest rising university in the country. The University of Winchester is the only university in the UK to be awarded five-star accreditation rating for overall organisational excellence by the British Quality Foundation, under its ‘Recognised for Excellence’ scheme, which uses the EFQM Excellence Model. The University of Winchester is ranked among the top five universities in the South East of England and top 25 universities in England by full-time students for overall satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2013. The PTES 2013, conducted by the Higher Education Academy in conjunction with 89 higher education institutions in the UK, revealed that the University of Winchester was over 10 percentage points higher than the sector average in terms of Teaching and Learning and Career and Professional Development.

Student Life

The Students Union
Winchester Student Union is an organisation run for and by the students of The University of Winchester. It runs many sports, student societies, bars, and a shop and helps support and represent students. The Student Union is based in the University Centre and has an 850 capacity venue that includes a cinema screen, three bars and a shop. BOP, Comedy Central & Detention are regular events held there during the semester.

All student media are the responsibility of the Communications officer for the Student Union, except for the weekly internet bulletins released, produced, and created by "Winchester News Online" or WINOL, as part of the BA Journalism Course.

Halls of residence
University accommodation is available on campus and in the West Downs Student Village nearby. The halls of residence are:

West Downs Student Village
Alwyn Hall
St Elizabeth's Hall
Beech Glade
Queens Road Student Village
Burma Road Student Village

Course Flexibility

The majority of programmes can be studied full-time and part-time.
A range of programmes is available, including many Combined Honours programmes.
Students are encouraged to tailor-make their degree programme according to the available modules to suit their interests and ambitions and every student is assigned a personal tutor.

Teaching Standards

The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) institutional audit concluded 'broad confidence' (the highest level of confidence possible within an audit) in the quality of academic awards and student experience.
Ranked highly overall in student satisfaction but particularly in Social Work, Creative Writing, Education Studies, Childhood Studies, Business Management, Initial Teacher Education, Event Management, Archaeology, Choreography and Dance, History and Journalism.
Teacher training provision is recognised at the highest level, with the last Ofsted inspection rating Winchester as 'Outstanding'.
In 2014, the University of Winchester received the British Quality Foundation's (BQF) Excellence 600 certification for performing to an exceptionally high standard.

Research Standards

All full-time staff are engaged in research and they ensure that it informs and enhances all teaching.
Winchester has a diverse, dynamic and supportive research community.
A Research and Knowledge Exchange Centre provides the focus of all research activity at the university.
Eighty-two per cent of the University of Winchester’s research submitted to the REF was considered to be of quality that is ‘recognised internationally’ or better in terms of originality, significance and rigour. The overall profile of seven out of eight units included research of ‘world-leading’ (4*) quality, the highest grade possible.

Academic Strengths

Winchester has a leading reputation for teacher training and is strong in the fields of business, performing arts, psychology, archaeology, history, creative writing, modern liberal arts, and theology and religious studies.

Student Facilities

The award-winning University Centre is at the very heart of social life. The Student Union is located there, plus key student facilities such as the Food Hall, Learning Café, book shop, Terrace Bar, the Union shop, the Games Room.
The Martial Rose Library offers, 300,000 printed books as well as academic journals, e-books and databases for all subject areas. There are over 450 study spaces, with 175 networked PC’s and 12 study rooms for group work.
There is extensive Wi-Fi across the campus, and 750 networked PC’s. There is 24-hour access to these PC’s in our social learning spaces, the Learning Café and the Kenneth Kettle Building There is also a PC finder service that maps the availability of the open access PC’s across campus and a free self-service netbook loan scheme.

Disability Services

There is a dedicated support team, part of Student Services who have responsibility for students with disabilities. For more information on the support offered email student.advice@winchester.ac.uk or telephone 01962 827341.

Students' Union

Satisfaction with the Student Union is ranked in the top ten universities in England.
The Student Union is located within the award-winning University Centre, the hub of social life on campus. The SU offers The Vault a large club/gig space for 1,200 people. The Vault also has capacity for fold-down seats to host cinema nights. There is also a Games Room and Terrace Bar. The Student Union also offers nearly 90 sports teams and societies.
The Vault in the Student Union has won the national award, Best Bar None every year for the past three years.
The Student Union is located inside the University Centre. It includes a club/gig space for 1,200 people, bars, a games room and a cinema. The Student Union offers a wide range of clubs and societies offering activities throughout the year.

Sport

The Winchester Sports Stadium,which opened in 2008, cost £3.5 million and includes an Olympic standard 8-lane running track and supporting field events and an all-weather astro turf suitable for hockey and football.
There is a new University gym, equipped with the latest cardio-equipment and resistance training machines, located in the Burma Road Student Village. The University also has tennis courts, a squash court and a sports hall. Swimming is available at the nearby River Park Leisure Centre.

Recent/Prospective New Builds

There is plenty of modern self-catering accommodation.Most recently the Burma Road Student Village opened, consisting of 500 rooms (around 350 for Winchester students), arranged in flats of 6-8 bedrooms, spread over 5 buildings. All rooms are ensuite and it has secure entry swipe card entry system and energy-saving features. The new University gym is also located on this site
The Queen's Road Student Village opened in September 2010, The new St Alphege Building, opened in September 2012, is a new state-of-the art learning and teaching building. It provides ten new lecture rooms, and has open access PCs and social learning areas. It is a low-energy building, with eco-friendly features such as a ‘living’ roof and natural ventilation.
The University Centre, which includes the Student Union forms the focus of the campus providing facilities for the whole university community. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) awarded the University Centre the RIBA Award for the South region in 2008 in recognition of its high architectural standards.
There is an on-going strategy for refurbishment and new builds across the campus designed to further enhance the student experience.

Availability of Part-Time Work

There are plenty of part-time job opportunities available.
The university has strong relationships with local employers and the JobShop advertises job opportunities either on campus or in the local area. There are also volunteering opportunities and paid work placements available.

Careers Guidance

The Careers Service offers:

Impartial and up-to-date information, advice and guidance about occupations, graduate employment, further study/training, volunteering, and other opportunities
Individual guidance appointments* with professionally qualified careers advisers
Email and telephone guidance for those unable to visit the Careers Service in person
A programme of talks and workshops from external speakers on a wide range of topics

New this year is the Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR) which will give students a single record of their academic and other achievements during their time at University to help maximise employability.

Notable Alumni

Mick Brookes - General Secretary, National Association of Head Teachers
Mike Bushell - BBC television journalist
Steve Furst - Comedy actor (Little Britain)
Mark Johnson - Horse racing announcer
Shappi Khorsandi - Comedian
Dirk Maggs - Radio producer
Andrew Norriss - Children's book author and TV sitcom writer
Don Nutbeam - Vice Chancellor, University of Southampton
David Prosho - Actor and performer
Angus Scott - Television journalist (also part-time lecturer in journalism)
Bob Taylor - Past President of the Rugby Football Union
Lauren Cohan – Actor

Honorary Alumni

Sir Terry Pratchett - Author
Julian Fellowes - Screenwriter, Director, Actor and Novelist
Jack Dee - Comedian
Sir David Frost - Journalist, comedian, writer and media personality
Jonathon Porritt - Environmentalist and writer Martin Bashir - Television journalist
Mark Byford - Deputy Director General BBC
Sir John Tavener - British composer
A. S. Byatt - Postmodern novelist
Colin Firth - Film and television actor
Alan Titchmarsh - Broadcaster and novelist
Sandy Lerner - Entrepreneur and philanthropist
Lord Plant of Highfield - Academic
Pie Corbett - Educational writer and poet
Bevis Hillier - Art historian, author and journalist
Professor David Crystal - Linguist, academic and author
David Gower - Cricketer
Geoff Holt - Sailor
Michael Scott-Joynt - Bishop of Winchester
Alastair Stewart - Newscaster
Philippa Forrester - Television presenter and producer
Professor Andrew Linzey - Theologian and writer
Tony Palmer - Documentary filmmaker
Peter Charles – Olympic Gold Medallist
Lady Sainsbury CBE – Ballerina
Carl Barat - Musician

Saturday, 24 October 2015

Applying To Universal Colleges

Who would not like to go to a popular College like Oxford, Harvard or the Sorbonne? As the world gets more aggressive, the nature of College you get your degree from can focus a great deal about your future. Getting a College degree from a brilliant universal College can give you that edge over top alumni from a College in your own nation.

What numerous candidates don’t understand is that applying to a College, particularly an abroad College, is not simply an issue of experiencing the application process. Anybody can do that, and, at prestigious Colleges, numerous more do than get in! To summarize the Book of scriptures: “numerous thump at the affirmations office entryway, however few are permitted in”.

Notwithstanding when English-talking understudies apply to English-medium Colleges abroad, there is a component of society included. Society means, to make it extremely straightforward, “how individuals think and carry on in a certain nation”. Americans, Britons, Australians, New Zealanders, and Canadians, for instance, talk the same dialect however have diverse societies. We feel that they are the same on the grounds that the distinctions are such a great amount of not exactly the distinctions from nations where English is not the first dialect.

Indeed, even nations which utilize the same examination framework don’t fundamentally have the same society, and that prompts shocks. Every year, a huge number of Nigerians, Indians, Kenyans, Pakistanis, Malays, and west Indians, who experienced “English framework” schools with great imprints, neglect to get into great English, Australian, and Canadian Colleges when they attempt. Getting a high review point normal in an open secondary school in Nebraska may not get you into Cambridge either. Nor will an Ivy Alliance College in America essentially give your English state funded school (all the more so in the event that it is in Africa or Asia) the validity that Colleges in your nation would.

Obviously, you have to be shrewd. Yes, you require a decent instruction. The best procedure on the planet won’t get an idiot into a top College. Yet the majority of the individuals who don’t get into the College they had always wanted are not dolts by any means: they are truly savvy and have done well at school. Hence, the more noteworthy the shock when they fall flat. They just can’t comprehend why!

The social side of College confirmations includes things like observation and worth. You may well need to “offer” your optional school to your forthcoming College, only on the grounds that they have not knew about it some time recently. Keep in mind one thing: the top Colleges stay at the top in light of the fact that they just concede understudies who are certain to succeed, both in their Colleges and in their professions. They don’t care to take risks. Yet telling the confirmations office how extraordinary your school was won’t even start to offer it.

English understudies may need to offer data to American Colleges that they never considered to get in, and they may not generally be requested it. Thus, American understudies may find that the things they believe are their most grounded focuses are of no enthusiasm at all to English Colleges: at any rate unless they are introduced in a certain manner. To sum up (which obviously implies that there are numerous exemptions), American Colleges are more inspired by the understudy as a man, while English Colleges are more keen on the understudy’s scholastic fabulousness, standing separated from different candidates.

African and Asian understudies who top their class in English-medium schools in their nations regularly learn systems that make them come up short in western Colleges, and never learn routines that will make them succeed. That is not a matter of awful instruction: it is training for the wrong culture. One reasonable case: in Africa or Asia, in the event that you remember the reading material, you are a decent understudy and will get good grades. In England or America, on the off chance that you remember the reading material, you have no innovativeness and will fizzle the examination. That kind of thing will appear in the application process, and the College entrance advisory boards know exactly where to look: lamentably the understudies have no clue about any of this and simply fill in the structures in their standard way.

Befuddled yet? Miserable? Does it all stable inconceivable? Here is the uplifting news: it is no place close outlandish! A large number of understudies get into the abroad Colleges they had always wanted every year, succeed and go ahead to incredible things. It is extremely conceivable, yet the individuals who succeed have the right methods, the right data, and the right exhortation.

How would I know? I know on the grounds that I have been helping understudies to get into abroad Colleges for quite a long time. I recollect one Malaysian understudy, when I was instructing at Victoria College of Wellington, who needed to get into an English College to turn into a Lawyer. Her English was sufficient, yet her certainty was definitely not. She knew minimal about the English Colleges, even which ones to apply to. I simply addressed her inquiries at consistently, think I gave her a letter of reference. Simply that was sufficient help for her.

Another Taiwanese understudy was overwhelmed by the UCAS arrangement of utilization to English Colleges. English was a piece of the issue, however the most serious issue was simply add up to newness to the entire framework. I simply stayed with him through the procedure, checked his structures and exhorted him on alternatives, and kept his spirits up. I was so upbeat, around after 4 years. when he returned to say thanks to me, Business degree close by.

Both of them, or numerous others whom I coached on their IELTS or TOEFL examinations or helped them to enhance their written work and perusing abilities to succeed in school, could undoubtedly have fizzled if nobody had been there. You don’t simply require an application paper supervisor or a secondary school direction advisor. You require an expert counsel who can help on EVERYTHING!: that is, whatever you, particularly, need to get into the College you had always wanted. It won’t be a 1-day, or 1-month handle: the prior you begin, the more probable you are to succeed.

One vital tip: the application procedure does NOT begin when you get the application structure! An effective application to a noteworthy College begins YEARS ahead of time: in the school you pick, the subjects you pick, and the exercises you partake in. After that, the structure filling procedure is either a matter of good system or fiasco administration to succeed.

So you require somebody who can make it through to the end, and not run the time at Madison Road rates each time you have an inquiry. On the off chance that I am not the one helping you, discover somebody in your family or neighborhood who has “been there, done that” (no “moment specialists” need apply).

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Dr. Jack Effron BA (Hon) (Econ) (Cincinnati) LLB (Brit Col) PhD (London) Cert Jaw Lang (Prov) has considered in 4 nations (Britain, Canada, U.S.A., and Taiwan) (none of them his nation of origin!). He has taught in Colleges and schools in 6 nations. He has helped numerous understudies like you get ready for and get into Colleges in the nation of their decision!

University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Berkeley, UC Berkeley, California or simply Cal) is a public research university located in Berkeley, California. It is the flagship campus of the University of California system, one of three parts in the state's public higher education plan, which also includes the California State University system and the California Community Colleges System.

It is considered by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings as one of six university brands that lead in world reputation rankings in 2015 and is ranked third on the U.S. News' 2015 Best Global Universities rankings conducted in the U.S. and nearly 50 other countries. The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) also ranks the University of California, Berkeley, fourth in the world overall, and first among public universities. Some department specifics include third in engineering, fourth in social sciences and first in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and life sciences. The university is also well known for producing a high number of entrepreneurs.

Established in 1868 as the result of the merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College in Oakland, UC Berkeley is the oldest institution in the UC system and offers approximately 350 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines.The University of California has been charged with providing both "classical" and "practical" education for the state's people. Cal co-manages three United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the U.S. Department of Energy.

Berkeley faculty, alumni, and researchers have won 72 Nobel Prizes (including 30 alumni Nobel laureates), nine Wolf Prizes, seven Fields Medals, 18 Turing Awards, 45 MacArthur Fellowships,20 Academy Awards, and 11 Pulitzer Prizes. To date, UC Berkeley scientists have discovered six chemical elements of the periodic table (californium, seaborgium, berkelium, einsteinium, fermium, lawrencium). Along with Berkeley Lab, UC Berkeley researchers have discovered 16 chemical elements in total – more than any other university in the world.Berkeley is a founding member of the Association of American Universities and continues to have very high research activity with $730.7 million in research and development expenditures in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2014.Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bomb in the world, which he personally headquartered at Los Alamos, New Mexico, during World War II. Faculty member Edward Teller was (together with Stanislaw Ulam) the "father of the hydrogen bomb". Former United States Secretary of Energy and Nobel laureate Steven Chu (PhD 1976), was Director of Berkeley Lab, 2004–2009.

Berkeley is a large, primarily residential research university with a majority of enrollments in undergraduate programs but also offers a comprehensive doctoral graduate program. The university has been accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges Senior College and University Commission since 1949. The university is one of only two UC campuses operating on a semester calendar, (the other is UC Merced). Berkeley offers 106 Bachelor's degrees, 88 Master's degrees, 97 research-focused doctoral programs, and 31 professionally focused graduate degrees. The university awarded a total of 7,526 Bachelor's, 2,164 Master's, and 1,264 Doctoral degrees in 2012.

Harvard University

The University is organized into eleven separate academic units—ten faculties and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study—with campuses throughout the Boston metropolitan area: its 209-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, approximately 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Boston; the business school and athletics facilities, including Harvard Stadium, are located across the Charles River in the Allston neighborhood of Boston and the medical, dental, and public health schools are in the Longwood Medical Area. Harvard has the largest financial endowment of any academic institution in the world, standing at $32.3 billion as of June 2013.

Harvard is a large, highly residential research university.The nominal cost of attendance is high, but the University's large endowment allows it to offer generous financial aid packages. It operates several arts, cultural, and scientific museums, alongside the Harvard Library, which is the world's largest academic and private library system, comprising 79 individual libraries with over 18 million volumes. Harvard's alumni include eight U.S. presidents, several foreign heads of state, 62 living billionaires, and 335 Rhodes Scholars. To date, some 150 Nobel laureates and 5 Fields Medalists (when awarded) have been affiliated as students, faculty, or staff.

Harvard's 209-acre (85 ha) main campus is centered on Harvard Yard in Cambridge, about 3 miles (4.8 km) west-northwest of the State House in downtown Boston, and extends into the surrounding Harvard Square neighborhood. Harvard Yard itself contains the central administrative offices and main libraries of the university, academic buildings including Sever Hall and University Hall, Memorial Church, and the majority of the freshman dormitories. Sophomore, junior, and senior undergraduates live in twelve residential Houses, nine of which are south of Harvard Yard along or near the Charles River. The other three are located in a residential neighborhood half a mile northwest of the Yard at the Quadrangle (commonly referred to as the Quad), which formerly housed Radcliffe College students until Radcliffe merged its residential system with Harvard. The Harvard MBTA station provides public transportation via bus service and the Red Line subway.

Undergraduate admission to Harvard is characterized by the Carnegie Foundation as "more selective, lower transfer-in". Harvard College accepted 5.3% of applicants for the class of 2019, a record low and the second lowest acceptance rate among all national universities. Harvard College ended its early admissions program in 2007 as the program was believed to disadvantage low-income and under-represented minority applicants applying to selective universities, yet for the class of 2016 an Early Action program was reintroduced.

The undergraduate admissions office's preference for children of alumni policies have been the subject of scrutiny and debate as it primarily aids Caucasians and the wealthy and seems to conflict with the concept of meritocratic admissions.
Harvard's academic programs operate on a semester calendar beginning in early September and ending in mid-May. Undergraduates typically take four half-courses per term and must maintain a four-course rate average to be considered full-time. In many concentrations, students can elect to pursue a basic program or an honors-eligible program requiring a senior thesis and/or advanced course work. Students graduating in the top 4–5% of the class are awarded degrees summa cum laude, students in the next 15% of the class are awarded magna cum laude, and the next 30% of the class are awarded cum laude. Harvard has chapters of academic honor societies such as Phi Beta Kappa and various committees and departments also award several hundred named prizes annually. Harvard, along with other universities, has been accused of grade inflation, although there is evidence that the quality of the student body and its motivation have also increased. Harvard College reduced the number of students who receive Latin honors from 90% in 2004 to 60% in 2005. Moreover, the honors of "John Harvard Scholar" and "Harvard College Scholar" will now be given only to the top 5 percent and the next 5 percent of each class.

National University of Singapore

The National University of Singapore (Abbreviation: NUS) is a university located in Singapore. NUS is ranked consistently as one of Asia's top universities by both UK ranking systems, the QS World University Rankings and the Times Higher Education World University Rankings. According to the latest 2015 QS World University Rankings, NUS is ranked 12th in the world and retained its position as 1st in Asia. NUS also fared well in the 2014-15 Times Higher Education World University Rankings, coming in at No.25.

Founded in 1905, it is the oldest higher learning institute in Singapore, as well as the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered. The mission of NUS is to become a research-intensive university with an entrepreneurial dimension. NUS's main campus is located in southwest Singapore at Kent Ridge, with an area of approximately 1.83 km2 (0.71 sq mi). The Bukit Timah campus houses the Faculty of Law, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and research institutes, while the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore is located at the Outram campus.

NUS has a semester-based modular system for conducting courses. It adopts features of the British system, such as small group teaching (tutorials) and the American system (course credits). Students may transfer between courses within their first two semesters, enrol in cross-faculty modules or take up electives from different faculties (compulsory for most degrees). Other cross-disciplinary initiatives study programmes include double-degree undergraduate degrees in Arts & Social Sciences and Engineering; Arts & Social Sciences and Law; Business and Engineering; and Business and Law.

NUS has 16 faculties and schools, including a Music Conservatory. Currently, it has seven overseas colleges at major entrepreneurial hubs in Shanghai and Beijing (China), Israel, India, Stockholm (Sweden), Silicon Valley and Bio Valley (US).
The NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC) programme started in 2001. Participants of the programme spend 6–12 months overseas, taking internships and courses at partner Universities. There are seven colleges: the Silicon Valley, California, United States; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US; Shanghai, China, Beijing, China, Stockholm, Sweden, India and Israel.

The local equivalent is the Innovative Local Enterprise Achiever Development (iLEAD) initiative, where students intern at innovative Singapore companies. This is a 7–8-month programme that cultivates an entrepreneurial mindset, and develops leadership and management skills.

NOC set up an entrepreneurial-themed residence, known as N-House. Located within the NUS Prince George's Park residence, this houses about 90 students, who are graduates of the NOC and iLEAD programmes. Entrepreneurial activities are also organised by the N-House residents, and these include entrepreneurial sharing sessions, business idea pitching and networking events.
Among the major research focuses at NUS are biomedical and life sciences, physical sciences, engineering, nanoscience and nanotechnology, materials science and engineering, infocommunication and infotechnology, humanities and social sciences, and defence-related research.

One of several niche research areas of strategic importance to Singapore being undertaken at NUS is bioengineering. Initiatives in this area include bioimaging, tissue engineering and tissue modulation. Another new field which holds much promise is nanoscience and nanotechnology. Apart from higher-performance but lower-maintenance materials for manufacturing, defence, transportation, space and environmental applications, this field also heralds the development of accelerated biotechnical applications in medicine, health care and agriculture.

Stanford University

Stanford was founded in 1885 by Leland Stanford, former Governor of and U.S. Senator from California and leading railroad tycoon, and his wife, Jane Lathrop Stanford, in memory of their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., who had died of typhoid fever at age 15 the previous year. Stanford was opened on October 1, 1891 as a coeducational and non-denominational institution. Tuition was free until 1920. The university struggled financially after Leland Stanford's 1893 death and and again after much of the campus was damaged by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Following World War II, Provost Frederick Terman supported faculty and graduates' entrepreneurialism to build self-sufficient local industry in what would later be known as Silicon Valley. By 1970, Stanford was home to a linear accelerator, and was one of the original four ARPANET nodes (precursor to the Internet).

Stanford's academic strength is broad with 40 departments in the three academic schools that have undergraduate students and another four professional schools. It has 21 living Nobel Laureates in Physics, Medicine, Chemistry, and Economics and 1 living Fields Medal winner.

Students compete in 36 varsity sports, and the university is one of two private institutions in the Division I FBS Pacific-12 Conference. It has gained 107 NCAA team championships, the second-most for a university, 476 individual championships, the most in Division I, and has won the NACDA Directors' Cup, recognizing the university with the best overall athletic team achievement, every year since 1994-1995.

Stanford faculty and alumni have founded many companies including Google, Hewlett-Packard, Nike, Sun Microsystems, Instagram and Yahoo!, and companies founded by Stanford alumni generate more than $2.7 trillion in annual revenue, equivalent to the 10th-largest economy in the world. It is the alma mater of 30 living billionaires and 17 astronauts. Stanford has produced a total of 18 Turing Award laureates. It is also one of the leading producers of members of the United States Congress.

Since 2000, Stanford has expanded dramatically. In February 2012, Stanford announced the conclusion of the Stanford Challenge. In a period of five years, Stanford raised $6.2 billion, exceeding its initial goal by $2 billion, making it the most successful university fundraising campaign in history. The funds will go towards 103 new endowed faculty appointments, 360 graduate student research fellowships, scholarships and financial aid, and the construction or renovation of 38 campus buildings. The new funding also enabled the construction of the world's largest facility dedicated exclusively to stem cell research; an entirely new campus for the business school; a dramatic expansion of the law school; a new Engineering Quad; a new art and art history building; an on-campus concert hall; a new art museum; and a planned expansion of the medical school, among other things. In 2012, Stanford opened the Stanford Center at Peking University, an almost 400,000-square-foot (37,000 m2), three-story research center in the Peking University campus. The ceremony featured remarks by U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke and Stanford President John Hennessy. Stanford became the first American university to have its own building on a major Chinese university campus.

Other Stanford programs underwent notable expansion as well, such as the Stanford in Washington Program's creation of the Stanford in Washington Art Gallery in Woodley Park, Washington, D.C., and the Stanford in Florence program's move to Palazzo Capponi, a 15th-century Renaissance palace. The university completed the James H. Clark Center for interdisciplinary research in engineering and medicine in 2003, named for benefactor, co-founder of Netscape, Silicon Graphics and WebMD, and former professor of electrical engineering James H. Clark.

In 2011, Stanford created the first PhD program in stem cell science in the United States. The program is housed at Stanford Medical School.

Undergraduate admission also became more selective; the acceptance rate dropped from 13% for the class of 2004 to 5.04% for the class of 2019, the lowest admit rate in University history. Stanford's reputation, competitive admissions, and strong legacy of entrepreneurship have contributed to the East-West rivalry between Stanford and such institutions as Harvard University, Princeton University and Yale University.

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's fourth-oldest surviving university. It grew out of an association of scholars who left the University of Oxford after a dispute with townsfolk.The two ancient universities share many common features and are often jointly referred to as "Oxbridge".

Cambridge is formed from a variety of institutions which include 31 constituent colleges and over 100 academic departments organised into six schools. The university occupies buildings throughout the town, many of which are of historical importance. The colleges are self-governing institutions founded as integral parts of the university. In the year ended 31 July 2014, the university had a total income of £1.51 billion, of which £371 million was from research grants and contracts. The central university and colleges have a combined endowment of around £5.89 billion, the largest of any university outside the United States. Cambridge is a member of many associations and forms part of the "golden triangle" of leading English universities and Cambridge University Health Partners, an academic health science centre. The university is closely linked with the development of the high-tech business cluster known as "Silicon Fen".

Students' learning involves lectures and laboratory sessions organised by departments, and supervisions provided by the colleges. The university operates eight arts, cultural, and scientific museums, including the Fitzwilliam Museum and a botanic garden. Cambridge's libraries hold a total of around 15 million books, 8 million of which are in Cambridge University Library which is a legal deposit library. Cambridge University Press, a department of the university, is the world's oldest publishing house and the second-largest university press in the world. Cambridge is regularly included among the world's best and most reputable universities by most university rankings. Beside academic studies, student life is centred on the colleges and numerous pan-university artistic activities, sports clubs and societies.

Cambridge has many notable alumni, including several eminent mathematicians, scientists, economists, writers, philosophers, actors, politicians. Ninety-one Nobel laureates have been affiliated with it as students, faculty, staff or alumni. Throughout its history, the university has featured in literature and artistic works by numerous authors including Geoffrey Chaucer, E. M. Forster and C. P. Snow.

Undergraduate applications to Cambridge must be made through UCAS in time for the early deadline, currently mid-October in the year before starting. Until the 1980s candidates for all subjects were required to sit special entrance examinations, since replaced by additional tests for some subjects, such as the Thinking Skills Assessment and the Cambridge Law Test. The University is considering reintroducing an admissions exam for all subjects with effect from 2016.

Most applicants who are called for interview will have been predicted at least three A-grade A-level qualifications relevant to their chosen undergraduate course, or the equivalent in other qualifications, such as getting at least 7,7,6 for higher-level subjects at IB. The A* A-level grade (introduced in 2010) now plays a part in the acceptance of applications, with the university's standard offer for most courses being set at A*AA, with A*A*A for sciences courses. Due to a very high proportion of applicants receiving the highest school grades, the interview process is crucial for distinguishing between the most able candidates. The interview is performed by College Fellows, who evaluate candidates on unexamined factors such as potential for original thinking and creativity. For exceptional candidates, a Matriculation Offer is sometimes offered, requiring only two A-levels at grade E or above. In 2006, 5,228 students who were rejected went on to get 3 A levels or more at grade A, representing about 63% of all applicants rejected. The acceptance rate for students in the 2012–2013 cycle was 21.9%.

Strong applicants who are not successful at their chosen college may be placed in the Winter Pool, where they can be offered places by other colleges. This is in order to maintain consistency throughout the colleges, some of which receive more applicants than others.

Graduate admission is first decided by the faculty or department relating to the applicant's subject. This effectively guarantees admission to a college—though not necessarily the applicant's preferred choice.

Kingston University

Kingston was founded as Kingston Technical Institute in 1899. In 1930 the Kingston School of Art separated, later to become Kingston College of Art. Kingston was recognised as a Regional College of Technology by Ministry of Education in 1957. In 1970 it merged again with the College of Art to become Kingston Polytechnic, offering 34 major courses, of which 17 were at degree level.

Kingston University was granted university status under the Further and Higher Education Act 1992. In 1993, Kingston opened the Roehampton Vale campus building and in 1995, Kingston acquired Dorich House.

The University has six halls of residence. Chancellors' and Walkden are based at the Kingston Hill campus. Middle Mill is adjacent to Knights Park campus, while Clayhill and Seething Wells are on opposite sides of Surbiton. Finally, there is Kingston Bridge House which is situated on the edge of Bushy Park at the Hampton Wick end of Kingston Bridge, London.
There are also contracted out halls of residence which are not owned by the university but licensed by them. IQ Wave halls were contracted due to Rennie being demolished to make way for a new education building at Kingston Hill.

The university operates a "headed tenancy" scheme in which the university sublets local properties to students from landlords.
In 2008, the BBC obtained e-mails circulated within Kingston's School of Music, relating to the opinions of an external examiner moderating the BMus course. The messages showed that her final report caused considerable concern within the department. The examiner was persuaded to moderate her criticism following contact from a member of the University's staff. The e-mails also detailed a plan to replace her (at the end of her term) with a more experienced and broad-based external examiner, a process which Kingston stressed breaks no rules relating to the appointment of such examiners. In October 2008, Peter Williams, Chief Executive of the UK Quality Assurance Agency (QAA), presented the agency's findings to a Parliamentary Select Committee charged with investigating standards in British higher education. Following an investigation of the allegations by a former University staff member that undue pressure was applied to the School of Music's External Examiner, QAA upheld all charges of wrongdoing, as alleged.

The Faculty of Business & Law has a number of specialist research units which cover the principal business disciplines. These research units include: Asia Business Research Centre, Business-to-Business Marketing Research Centre, Centre for Insolvency Law and Policy, Centre for Working Life Research, Consumer Research Unit, Marketing in New Contexts Group, Small Business Research Centre, Centre for Research in Employment, Skills & Society, Institute of Leadership & Management in Health.
The Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing was formed in summer 2011. The Faculty is composed of eight schools: Aerospace and Aircraft Engineering; Civil Engineering and Construction; Computing and Information Systems; Geography, Geology and Environment; Life Sciences; Mathematics; Mechanical and Automotive Engineering; and Pharmacy and Chemistry.

The School of Geography, Geology and the Environment hosts Geographical Information Systems (GIS), which was the very first degree of its kind.

The Faculty's teaching is split between undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Facilities at the Roehampton Vale campus including a Learjet 25, flight simulator, wind tunnel and automotive workshops including a range of vehicles and testing facilities.

Duke University

Duke University is a private research university located in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day town of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892.In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James Buchanan Duke established Duke University, at which time the institution changed its name to honor his deceased father, Washington Duke.

The university's campus spans over 8,600 acres (35 km2) on three contiguous campuses in Durham as well as a marine lab in Beaufort. Duke's main campus—designed largely by architect Julian Abele—incorporates Gothic architecture with the 210-foot (64 m) Duke Chapel at the campus' center and highest point of elevation. The first-year-populated East Campus contains Georgian-style architecture, while the main Gothic-style West Campus 1.5 miles away is adjacent to the Medical Center. Duke is also the 7th wealthiest private university in America with $11.4 billion in cash and investments in fiscal year 2014.

Duke's research expenditures in the 2013 fiscal year were $993 million, the eighth largest in the nation. In 2014, Thomson Reuters named 32 Duke professors to its list of Highly Cited Researchers, making it fourth globally in terms of primary affiliations. Duke also ranks 5th among national universities to have produced Rhodes, Marshall, Truman, Goldwater, and Udall Scholars. 8 Nobel laureates, 3 Turing Award winners and 25 Churchill scholars are also affiliated with the university. In 2015, NPR ranked Duke first on its list of "schools that make financial sense". Duke's sports teams compete in the Atlantic Coast Conference and the basketball team is renowned for having won five NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championships, the most recent in 2015.

Duke students often refer to the campus as "the Gothic Wonderland," a nickname referring to the Collegiate Gothic architecture of West Campus. Much of the campus was designed by Julian Abele, one of the first prominent African-American architects and the chief designer in the offices of architect Horace Trumbauer. The residential quadrangles are of an early and somewhat unadorned design, while the buildings in the academic quadrangles show influences of the more elaborate late French and Italian styles. The freshmen campus (East Campus) is composed of buildings in the Georgian architecture style. In 2011, Travel+Leisure listed Duke among the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.
Admission to Duke is highly selective; Duke received over 31,150 applications for the Class of 2019, and admitted 9.4% of applicants. According to The Huffington Post, Duke was the tenth toughest university in the United States to get into based on admissions data from 2010. The yield rate (the percentage of accepted students who choose to attend the university) is approximately 50%. For the class of 2015, 90% of enrolled students ranked in the top 10% of their high school classes; 97% ranked in the top quarter. The middle 50% range of SAT scores for the prospective students accepted to Trinity College of Arts and Sciences in Fall 2014 is 680–790 for verbal/critical reading, 700–800 for math, and 700–790 for writing, while the ACT Composite range is 31–35 For those accepted to the Pratt School of Engineering, the middle 50% range for the SAT is 700-780 for verbal/critical reading, 760-800 for math, and 720-800 for writing, while the ACT Composite range is 33-35. The average SAT score is 2240.

From 2001 to 2011, Duke has had the sixth highest number of Fulbright, Rhodes, Truman, and Goldwater scholarships in the nation among private universities. The University practices need-blind admissions and meets 100% of admitted students' demonstrated need. About 50 percent of all Duke students receive some form of financial aid, which includes need-based aid, athletic aid, and merit aid. The average need-based grant for the 2013–2014 academic year was nearly $39,275. Roughly 60 merit-based scholarships are also offered, including the Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholarship, awarded for academic excellence. Other scholarships are geared toward students in North Carolina, African-American students, and high-achieving students requiring financial aid.

Sunday, 18 October 2015

Beneficial of Whole Grains

Grains such as wheat, rice, oats and barley, and the foods made form them, constitute the basis of a healthful diet. Whole grains of a healthful diet. Whole grains are an important source of many vitamins and minerals that have been associated with lower risk of colon cancer, such as folate, vitamin E, and selenium. Whole grains are higher in fiber, certain vitamins, and minerals than processed (refined) flour products. Although the association between fober and cancer risk is inconclusive, consumption of high-fiber foods is still recommended. Since the benefits grain foods impart may derive from their other nutrients as well as form fiber, it is best to obtain fiver form whole grains- vegetables and fruits –rather than from fiber supplements.

Beans are excellent sources of many vitamins and minerals protein, and fiber. Beans are legumes, the technical team for the family of plants that includes dried beans, pinto beans, lentils, and soybeans, among many others. Beans are especially rich in nutrients that may protect against cancer and can be a useful low-fat, high-protein, alternative to meat.

Nutrition and physical activity

Recommendation for community action

Social, economic, and cultural factors strongly influence individual choices about diet and physical activity. While most people would like to adopt a healthful lifestyle, many encounter substantial barriers that make it difficult to follow diet and activity. Toward increasing consumption of high calorie convenience foods and restaurant meals, and declining levels of physical activity are contributing to an alarming epidemic of obesity among longer workdays and more households with multiple wage earners reduce the amount of time available for preparation of meals, with a resulting shift toward increased consumption of food outside the home- often processed foods, fast foods, and snack foods. Reduced leisure time, increased reliance on automobile for transportation, and increased availability of electronic entertainment and communications media all contribute to a less active and increasingly sedentary lifestyle. These trends are of particular concern, especially with regard to the adverse effects they have on the long-term health of children, who are establishing life-time patterns of diet and physical activity, as well as on the poor, who live in communities with less access to safe and healthful lifestyle options.

Facilitating improved diet and increased physical activity partners will require multiple strategies, ranging from the implementation of community and work-site health promotion programs to policies that affect community planning, transportation, school-based physical education, and food services. Particular efforts will be needed to ensure that all population groups have access to healthful food choices and opportunities for physical activity. Both public and private organizations at the local, state, and national levels will have to develop new policies and will need to raise or reallocate resources to facilitate needed changes. Health care professional, who can be especially persuasive on maters of lifestyle change, can provide leadership in promoting policy changes in their communities.

Public, private, and community organizations should work to create social and physical environments that support the adoption and maintenance of healthful nutrition and physical activity behaviours.

v Increase access to healthful foods in schools, worksites, and communities.

v Provide safe, enjoyable, and accessible environments for physical activity in schools, and for transportation and recreation in communities.

Nutrition and physical activity for cancer prevention

Recommendations for individual choices

Eat a variety of healthful foods, with an emphasis on plant sources

v Eat five or more servings of a variety of vegetables and fruits each day.

v Choose whole grains in preference to processed (refined) grains and sugars.

v Limit consumption of red meats, especially those high in fat and processed.

Adopt a physically active lifestyle

v Adults: engage in at least moderate activity for 30 minutes or more on five or more days of the week; 45 minutes or more of moderate-to-vigorous activity on five or more days per week may further enhance reductions in the risk of breast and colon cancer.

v Children and adolescents: engage in at least 60 minutes per day moderate-to-vigorous physical activity at least five days per week.

Maintain a healthful weight throughout life

v Balance caloric intake with physical activity.

v Lose weight if currently overweight or obese.

If you drink alcoholic beverages, limit consumption.

CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK-QUEENS

CUNY Queens College in Flushing, New York-regularly alluded to as the gem of the CUNY framework offers the way of life and energy of a urban zone, and the quiet magnificence of a more natural setting. As a worker school, understudies can appreciate gracious the quick paced existence of new your City and the 77 sections of land of open space that is the principle grounds.

CUNY Queens College not just gives a various setting; it is likewise brimming with differing individuals. Flushing, Queens is a standout amongst the most ethnically assorted places in the nation, drawing from a nearby Asian, Jewish, Greek, and Italian society. The understudies populace itself is unfathomably, differed embodied youngsters from around the globe.

While moderate, CUNY Queens is in no way, shape or form ailing in quality offices. The school brags a conventional quad, in addition to avant-garde PC and science structures. The Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing Arts gives a space to the Music, Art, Dram, and Media studies programs. In 2009, another private lobby, the Summit, was assembled to welcome understudies to on-grounds living.

Scholastics

Graduation prerequisites incorporate center course in composing, math, conceptual and quantitative thinking, remote dialect, and general instruction. These general training prerequisites fall into two classes. The primary is Core Areas of Knowledge and Inquiry, a study program that incorporates courses in perusing writing, acknowledging and taking part in expressions of the human experience, societies and qualities, dissecting social structures and common science. The second aspect of the general instruction necessity is Global Contexts. This incorporates courses on the United States, European conventions, world societies, and preindustrial society. Understudies should likewise satisfy prerequisites for a noteworthy.

There are 121 majors offered, with champion projects in financial matters and brain science. Understudies report that the level of scholarly meticulousness obviously can fluctuate, to a great extent relying upon the commitment of the teachers. "Some are truly into instructing, and others are less excited, "says an understudy. It can likewise be hard to get into the majority of the classes one needs to take. "Enlistment can be baffling, "comments an understudy.

In a few territories, CUNY Queens does not give a system to specific fields of study, yet does, nonetheless, offer planning studies. Case in point, CUNY Queens does not offer a building system, but rather gives the specific course to first and second year designing, planning understudies if they decide to change to a designing program in their third or fourth semester.

Seven of the universities in the CUNY framework take part in the littler Macaulay Honors College, which offers full educational cost for a long time of study, a tablet, and a stipend of up to $7,500 to be utilized for worldwide research, administration, and temporary jobs. Notwithstanding the undeniable budgetary advantages of such a program, the Macaulay Honors Program furnishes its individuals with four workshops concentrated on New York City, exhorting, and systems administration opportunities. "Being acknowledged into the Macaulay Program is similar to going to a private school for nothing," says a member.

Understudy life

Rulers College has more than 90 studetn associations which offer a scope of intrigues , from genuine to recreational. Studetns keen on correspondence may discover an oulet in the WMC radio station, which has been telecasting following the 1960s. Others may search out the International Studetns Club, which has triops, cultureal occasions, and board exchanges for internatinal undrgraduates. There is likewise a new york Public Interest Research Group section that advances issues, for example, voter enrollment, advanced education financing, and envirnmental security

Since the colossal lion's share of studetns drive to CUNY Queens, the social scene isn't as dynamic as at private schools. "We are centered around learning. The social angles are optional, " comments an understudy. One prevalent side interest, be that as it may, is to watch exhibitions at the Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing Arts. There are seven Green associations, including the Phi Iota Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the most seasoned Latino Greek Letter club. Just around 1 percent of men and ladies decide to join societies or sorotities. "To be completely forthright, I didn't even know we had clubs nd sororities," noticed an understudy.

CUNY Queens College has 20 Division II athletic groups, distinguishin it from alternate universities in the CUNY framework. CUNY Queens does not have a football group, and studertnts report that school soul is "non-existent." The school has intramural games, and there are a couple understudy associations dedicated to atheletics, for example, the soccer club.

CUNY Queens College is associated with the New York City metro framework and the Long Island Railroad, so go to Manhattan or oute city zones is simple "There's something to do in the city at extremely inconvenient times of the day and night, each day of the week," says one understudy. The Queens Museum of At and Shea Stadium, where the New York Mets play, are additionally in the region.

The school is just ready to house around 500 understudies on grounds in the new private office, the Summit. This engineering structure manufactured in 2009 is advanced and complies with the city's vitality proficiency standerds. "Living on camus makes it feel more like a tycal school experience, and the understudies who live in the Summit are a tight-weave gathering," says an understudy. Most understudies, notwithstanding, cooperative to CUNY Queens