The agency has been awarding grants to an increasingly smaller sliver of applicants as well.
It seeks rich applicants as much as those who are gifted.
Another study, published in 2009, claimed that people judged job applicants as more competent if they had a male voice.
Previously, town officials could accept campaign donations from applicants as long as they did not solicit the contributions.
"Job applicants as well as company representatives are dressing up more, in play-it-safe type suits for networking events.
Andover's decision, Exeter officials say, made theirs easier; the two compete for applicants as well as on the football field.
They are requiring home visits instead of phone interviews from new applicants, as well as blood tests and a thorough examination of their medical records.
The room is a living, learning, research environment and important to new students so we offer a guarantee of a place to Clearing applicants as well," he says.
As Roger Lowenstein wrote in Bloomberg Business Week: "The financial crisis was accompanied by fraud, on the part of mortgage applicants as well as banks.
Though the yield is not yet known, Mr. Mahoney suspects that the new requirement deterred frivolous applicants as well as weaker ones (grades and test scores increased slightly).
Black and Latino college applicants, as well as athletes and so-called legacies, receive large preferences — the equivalent of 150 to 300 SAT points.
