Sentence examples for preferences given to from inspiring English sources

In the nineteen-eighties, when Harvard was accused of enforcing a secret quota on Asian admissions, its defense was that once you adjusted for the preferences given to the children of alumni and for the preferences given to athletes, Asians really weren't being discriminated against.

Ethnic Chinese voters who have long supported the governing coalition have shown dissatisfaction with the longstanding preferences given to ethnic Malays in land purchases and bank loans, as well as in university admissions.

The Bush administration briefs in the Michigan case argued this month that the extra points given to minority undergraduate applicants and the less specific preferences given to minority law school applicants violated the constitutional guarantees of equal protection of the law.

BEAT REPORTING DANIEL GOLDEN The Wall Street Journal Mr. Golden, who covers education for The Journal, won for reporting that included a series of articles on the university-admissions preferences given to the children of alumni, wealthy donors and the well connected.

In the 2001 book "The Game of Life," James L. Shulman and William Bowen (a former president of Princeton) conducted an enormous statistical analysis on an issue that has become one of the most contentious in admissions: the special preferences given to recruited athletes at selective universities.

A glance at the current challenges to affirmative action in higher education would show little more than the fact that a number of white applicants have asserted in court that they were illegally denied admission to college or law school because of preferences given to racial or ethnic minorities.

Preference given to advance orders by mail (Midgette).

Shulman and Bowen think the preference given to athletes by the Ivy League is shameful.

The surging preference given to historical considerations over art is a worldwide phenomenon.

Two lotteries are to be held in the spring to choose buyers, with preference given to town residents.

Pupils are admitted through random allocation, with some preference given to those who live within two miles.