The phrase "admission preference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to educational institutions or programs that give priority to certain applicants over others.
Example: "The university has an admission preference for students who demonstrate leadership skills and community involvement."
Alternatives: "admission priority" or "enrollment preference".
Colleges seeking to increase diversity while not running afoul of Supreme Court guidelines, the new document says, "could select schools (including community colleges) based on their demographics (e.g., their racial or socioeconomic composition), and grant an admission preference" to graduates of those schools.
Nevertheless, the results were so dramatic that we expanded ABL and offered an admission preference to anyone on our waiting list.
The Wall Street Journal won two prizes: for explanatory reporting, for a series examining aneurysms; and for beat reporting, for articles on admission preferences given by American colleges to the children of alumni and donors.
The Wall Street Journal won two prizes: for explanatory reporting, for a series examining aneurysms, by Kevin Helliker and Thomas M. Burton; and for beat reporting, for Daniel Golden's look into admission preferences given by American colleges to the children of alumni and donors.
Daniel Golden of The Wall Street Journal won a Pulitzer Prize in 2004 "for his compelling and meticulously documented stories on admission preferences given to the children of alumni and donors at American universities".
For example, colleges should examine the admission preferences for athletes.
Few, if any, colleges maintain an admissions preference for low-income students.
The committee, however, stopped short of calling on the university to provide such financial assistance, as well as admissions preference.
He said giving low-income students the same admissions preference that children of alumni receive could raise their representation to about 17percentt from the current 11percentt.
Many small schools, for example, may filter out the most unruly students, and those whose parents are least involved, by requiring students to wear uniforms and by giving admissions preference to those who attended information sessions.
The chancellor, Richard H. Herman, was under pressure to step down after an outside commission, appointed by Gov. Patrick J. Quinn, found that the university gave admissions preference to unqualified applicants with connections.
