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31 ago 2017
2017: las mejores universidades en América Latina y los 4 países que destacan
19 nov 2016
Los Simpson, asignatura en la Universidad
La Universidad de Glasgow ha creado un curso en la facultad de Filosofía para estudiar a los Simpson, a los que consideran uno de los referentes de nuestra cultura.- El curso ha tenido una gran acogida y ya han anunciado nuevas convocatorias para los siguientes meses, y eso que cuesta casi 35.000 euros. Lee más
5 nov 2016
La otra cara de las universidades de élite: depresión, ansiedad y suicidios
22 ago 2012
The Ivy League: la excelencia universitaria
La Ivy League (Liga Ivy o Liga de la Hiedra) es una conferencia deportiva de la NCAA de ocho universidades privadas del noreste de los Estados Unidos.
Antes de convertirse en la denominación oficial de la conferencia deportiva, en 1954, ya se denominaba así de forma oficiosa a este grupo de universidades, que tienen en común unas connotaciones académicas de excelencia, así como de elitismo por su antigüedad y admisión selectiva. También se conoce a las universidades de esta conferencia como "las ocho antiguas" o "las Hiedras" (ancient eight o the Ivies, en idioma inglés).
How to Get Into an Ivy League School
Thousands of students all over the world dream to be admitted to an Ivy League or similarly elite institution, which many consider to be the pinnacle of collegiate education. Accomplishing this has become more and more difficult due to a rapidly growing applicant pool, but you can certainly increase your odds of getting into one. Here's a route that will improve your chances with the Ivy Leagues and, if nothing else, help make the most of your high-school years and prepare you for an excellent college education somewhere else.
Start early. Aim to be a well-rounded achiever. A slacker who decides to start making good grades late in high school probably won't be admitted. You should have a consistent history of high scholastic achievement.
There are sometimes exceptions as colleges also love to see improvement. If your problems were due to circumstances beyond your control, you could attach a supplement to your application about what they were and how you succeeded in spite of them.
Challenge yourself. Seek out the most demanding and rigorous opportunities at your school, especially in the academic arena. It's often preferable to do well in a challenging program than to be exceptional in an average one. If your school offers advanced courses, especially those for which college credit is offered, an Ivy League school will expect you to have taken them.
Schools can't factor difficult teachers into their decision. They can only go off your transcript. Look for classes that will be recognized as difficult, but preferably without overly difficult grading.
It's most helpful to take difficult classes and work hard in subjects you expect to continue with in college, because they'll also make good grades there easier.
Have an excellent GPA. Having a GPA in the top 10% of your class is essential, and being ranked among the top few students dramatically betters your chances. Keep in mind you're applying to institutions where many of the other applicants are valedictorians at their school.
Have excellent standardized test scores. This is a critical part of your overall application because it's the one area where you're on equal footing with everyone else. Aim for attaining at least a 700 (out of a possible 800) points on each section of the SAT (and on individual SAT II tests), or a composite of 30 on the ACT for a reasonable chance of being admitted. Bringing these scores up to 750+ on each SAT section, or a 33+ composite ACT, will give you solid scores that need not be improved.
• Do not repeat the test more than three times. According to Chuck Hughes, a former senior admissions officer at Harvard, the admission panel will notice this and your repeated attempts to get a high score may come off as too focused on scores. [1] Get good before you take it.
• Take a test-preparation class or get a few books and practice. Speed and accuracy on these tests is a unique skill which needs to be learned. Start preparing early and keep at it diligently until you can solve the problems without much thinking.
Get involved in extracurricular activities. Ivy Leagues want to see a well-rounded applicant who didn't lock themselves away for four years to get good grades. Join a sports team (even if it's just an intramural team), join a club or two and get involved with the theater department.
Volunteer. Think on a national or international scale; don't just limit yourself to the opportunities in your home town. Spending a summer helping raise funds to build a school in Peru will mean more to them than raising funds for your local church.
Lead in the areas where you excel. Look for opportunities to take on additional recognition and responsibility as a leader. This can range from becoming class president to cheerleading captain, or even an officer for a club you participate in. Take your job as a leader seriously because the lessons you learn in this role can be the experiences that set you apart from the crowd when you write your essay or get interviewed.
Master the Application Process
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Research schools. Not all Ivy League schools offer the same experience. Find out whether the research opportunities, location, social life, students, professors, climate dormitories and food services are things you would enjoy for four years.
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Visit the campus. Talk with professors and current students. Get a sense of what your life there would be like. Also, try to see if you can spend a weekend there. Several colleges offer that option.
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Research financial aid opportunities. Ivy League schools are notoriously expensive and they do not offer any athletic, merit or regional scholarships. You must complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) to receive aid.
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Get teacher recommendations. Seek out teachers who know you well, have a favorable opinion of you (hopefully they all do!) and seem willing to write a great recommendation on your behalf. Some will appreciate if you can make their job easier with a discussion or a few notes for starting points on what to say about you.
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Polish your application. What many applicants do not realize is that high grades and test scores will not guarantee admission. They merely "get you through" the first round of rejections. After that, the college will examine what kind of person you are. This is done through one or more essays, teacher and counselor recommendations, an interview and sometimes a peer recommendation.
• Begin the application process early so that you will have sufficient time to revise anything if needed. Ask adults familiar with prestigious universities' culture (your school counselor, for example) for advice on what kinds of things from your experience to write about and how to best present them to the school. This can help with interviews too.
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Prepare for your interview. Interviews can be with someone from the admissions office of the university or an alumni, and range from relatively nonchalant to interrogative ordeals. Dress respectfully, be expectant of questions your interviewer may ask, but above all just be yourself - or a subtly more mature version!
• Find someone to give you practice interviews. Even if they aren't familiar with the process, they will help you stay relaxed and articulate. If your interview does not go well, do not worry. Interviews are rarely indicative of whether you will be accepted or not.
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Sit back, and wait for the results. Most Ivy League decisions arrive in early April, or can be checked online the first of the month. A few schools will send out "likely letters" to their more desirable prospects 1-2 months earlier to informally notify them of their acceptance.
What to Do After Being Accepted Or Rejected
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Do not allow your grades to significantly slip. Students can be dropped by schools for drastically declining grades. Any sort of arrest during this period will often result in an acceptance being taken away as well.
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Consider other options for a wait-list decision. If you have been wait-listed, your chances of being accepted off the wait list are quite slim. Move on to your next choice.
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Try transferring into an Ivy. If you do outstanding work at a second tier school, you can try transferring to an Ivy after a year or two. You might not receive credit toward graduation for the work done at the other school. You will probably be able to skip repeating introductory courses, but you might still have to take four years of courses, which means padding things out with more advanced courses or with courses you're interested in outside your major. Your degree is from the school where you finish, not where you begin.
• Some state colleges guarantee transfer admission to community-college students meeting grade requirements there. This can save you a bundle and even let you get in to a prestigious state college - not quite the Ivies, but close - which might refuse to admit you directly.
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Look at graduate school programs for Ivys. By doing outstanding work at an undergraduate program and performing very well on the appropriate admissions exam (e.g., GRE, LSAT) you may be able to be admitted to an Ivy League graduate program. In addition to providing excellent opportunities for scholarship, many of these programs offer opportunities for offsetting tuition and other expenses via teaching or research assistant positions.
• A prestigious graduate school can do much more to increase income in a highly-paid profession than a prestigious undergraduate program. For grad schools that focus heavily on grades, a slightly less-prestigious undergraduate program with generous grading might actually improve your chances of admission over more amorphous prestige and the good grades you'll have to claw for with tougher competition.
18 may 2010
Lo que algunos ganan por dar cursos de verano
Los motivos por los que las universidades eligen a ciertos profesionales de renombre para impartir cursos de verano, son principalmente por la aportación que todas estas personalidades pueden realizar en un área de conocimiento concreto. Y, aunque mucho se especula sobre lo que se cobra por la participación de estos ponentes, sobre todo, los más famosos o conocidos, lo cierto es que los precios no son tan elevados e, incluso, en algunos casos no se percibe ninguna compensación económica.
No obstante, todo depende de la universidad porque en algunas las tasas varían mientras en otra son fijas, del papel que desarrolle esta personalidad (director de curso, ponente, conferenciante…) y de los patrocinios que se consigan, que pueden contribuir a aumentar la cuantía estipulada inicialmente.
Entre las universidades que mayor retribución económica ofrecen a los participantes se halla la UIMP, que posee toda una serie de tarifas para cada función y según condiciones de si se es residente o no en la localidad en la que tiene lugar el curso. Por ejemplo, en el caso de las personalidades residentes, éstas perciben 767 euros por dirigir un curso; 420 euros por la secretaria de un curso o una conferencia; 163 euros por una mesa redonda y moderación; 6.300 euros por un curso magistral o por participar en la actividad el autor y su obra, y 3.089 euros por los talleres.
Entre otras tarifas de la UIMP también figuran las que se aplican a los profesores en cursos de postgrado no regulados por convenio específico. En este caso, un director de máster percibe 2.000 euros por curso; un coordinador de tramo durante 2 o 3 semanas con una retribución de 1.534 euros y un coordinador de prácticas, 315 euros. Además, se les proporciona manutención y, en caso contrario, se proporciona un abono de 31 euros por día.
En la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, las tarifas previstas contemplan pagos de 1.082 euros por ser director de un curso, 700 euros por director de un encuentro y 722 euros por ser secretario de un curso. Un precio en el que se incluyen todas las intervenciones. También se contempla el pago de 433 euros por conferencia y mesa redonda, 290 euros si se pronuncia una segunda conferencia y 217 euros por una mesa redonda si no participa en una conferencia. Aparte, se les cubre los gastos de viaje por la vía más directa y la tarifa más económica; el servicio técnico hasta El Escorial desde el aeropuerto, kilometraje si el desplazamiento se realiza en un vehículo particular, alojamiento y manutención. Sin embargo, no entran otros gastos derivados del desplazamiento o adicionales como teléfono, taxis o aparcamiento.
Precios más modestos son los que tiene estipulados la Universidad Pablo Olavide, que prevé que un director coordinador perciba hasta 600 euros; hasta 300 euros se abonan por una ponencia de 2 horas; hasta 200 euros por un taller práctico de dos horas; hasta 150 euros por moderar una mesa redonda de 2 horas; 125 euros por participar en una mesa redonda de dos horas. También se cubre el desplazamiento.
En esta línea se enmarcan también las tarifas de la Universidad del País Vasco en sus Cursos de Verano en Donostia, en los que se paga un precio fijo de 360 euros, además de hacerse cargo de la manutención y el alojamiento.
Una cantidad que es similar a la de la Universidad de Zaragoza, que también contempla un pago de unos 350 euros por un curso con una duración de dos días y medio y hasta 400 euros en el caso de que se hayan generado recursos propios al margen de los aportados por la administración, además de correr con los gastos de alojamiento y manutención.
En el caso de la Universidad de Burgos, las tarifas son también más económicas. Aquí, por ejemplo, se perciben 360 euros por ser director del curso; 330 euros por una conferencia, 150 euros por segunda conferencia o sucesivas y 150 euros se pagan al evaluador, cantidad que también se recibe por participar en mesas redondas. En talleres, visitas u otras actividades, se contempla un pago de 180 euros. El alojamiento, manutención y desplazamiento también corre por cuenta de la universidad.
Por su parte, en la Universidad de Barcelona se abona una media de 200 euros por conferencia y se hacen cargo del coste del desplazamiento para los participantes no residentes.
Otra forma de pago es el establecido en la Universidad de Córdoba, que tiene fijado un precio de 70 euros por hora de docencia a los profesores.
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Sin embargo, el pago de las retribuciones económicas no suele ser el principal motivo por el que se participa en los cursos de verano. Según explica José Luis Calvo, responsable de los cursos de verano en la Universidad de Zaragoza, muchos especialistas acuden “porque hay tradición de estos cursos y muchos han venido cuando eran estudiantes, se tiene más prestigio profesional y muchas veces se hacen relaciones y surgen colaboraciones que se concretan en nuevas vías de investigación o que se materializan en un libro”.
Una opinión que también comparte Ángel Gutiérrez, responsable de los cursos de verano en la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, quien señala que “la mayoría no cobran nada porque son de círculos cercanos”, aunque reconoce que la cuantía puede depender en función de la personalidad.
El prestigio profesional es uno de los factores más importantes y relevantes, al menos, en el caso de la Universidad de Barcelona, en la que “es una universidad muy grande y viene por el currículum, porque es prestigio”, apunta Nuria Valín, responsable de la Secretaria de los Cursos de Verano de la Universidad de Barcelona.
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