11.   Selective colleges can afford to spend top dollar to shop for the students they want.

12.   Taking tough high school courses is a key to acceptance into a selective college.

13.   The model closely resembles those that dozens of highly selective private colleges have used for more than a generation.

14.   The study looks at very selective colleges because it is primarily at these institutions that race-sensitive admission policies are an issue.

15.   The widespread sense that selective colleges are looking for superhuman virtues is perhaps best expressed in a snippet of humor that has been making the rounds on the Internet.

16.   They said selective colleges like Princeton and New York University routinely put less prepared students in similar summer programs.

17.   These results foreshadow the likely effects that such a policy would have at other highly selective colleges and universities across the country.

18.   Wesleyan, which had a record number of applicants, was a rarity among highly selective colleges in taking anyone off its waiting list.