11.   It remains unclear whether the college will take any action.

12.   Moreoever, the report says, if colleges do not take steps to reduce costs, government may intervene.

13.   No wonder conservative colleges have taken to running ads in mainstream publications.

14.   One result of the pressure has been that the way applicants groom themselves for college has taken on greater importance.

15.   Other colleges take it for granted that men and women can peacefully participate in school activities side by side.

16.   Rather, they say, the colleges are taking the same students they would have taken later.

17.   That is why colleges take many other characteristics into account.

18.   The complaint focuses on the advanced-placement classes that the public colleges take into account in admissions decisions and that are typically missing from poor schools.

19.   The Poughkeepsie, N.Y., college took a chance on him, sight unseen.

20.   These days, colleges will take money any way they can get it.