1.   At Stanford, all student applicants are ranked both academically and on their achievement outside the classroom, as well as other factors, such as their background.

2.   Each Virginia institution, that is to say, has a natural incentive to make itself distinctive in order to attract a particular segment of student applicants.

3.   School officials acknowledge that minorities are not the only groups of student applicants to receive some form of preferential treatment.

4.   The Bush administration also said it plans to scrutinize student visa applicants whose academic interests are in what it considers sensitive fields of science or technology.

5.   The Kennedy-Brownback bill would simply require special scrutiny for student visa applicants from those countries.

6.   The case involved a successful challenge to a University of Texas law school policy that gave special consideration to black and Mexican-American student applicants.

7.   The Texas law school policy gave special consideration to black and Mexican-American student applicants.