They may be academic performers, but are they intellectual?

Even football has come under siege at some elite colleges, thanks to administrators fed up with admitting substandard academic performers to field a team.

Merit-based aid is scholarships and grants awarded to top academic performers or others with special talents.

Admissions to the program is based on the Ed-Opt (Educational-Option) Formula, a program designed to attract a wide range of academic performers.

It is one of the best academic performers in the northern regions and Namibia as a whole.

Some local districts have feared that such programs, which would siphon off the top academic performers, would harm their competitive status for the most selective college admissions.

Only a relative handful are at-risk students: poor academic performers with troubled personal lives.

Instead, he advocates colleges that accept a broad range of students, not just the top academic performers.

Brown attended an integrated high school in Allentown where he continued to be a top academic performer.

An elitist club of ECHS' highest academic performers that just takes field trips to colleges and tutors.