In addition, he notes, "colleges want to have high rankings because it generates more top applicants."

Or that public schools should pay more to attract top applicants who tend to go into higher-paying professions?

The medicine and engineering programs still admit only the top applicants.

In order to attract top applicants, the school offers significant financial aid packages to 80% of incoming international students.

The army put the volunteers through a series of physical and psychological tests and picked the top applicants.

Successful applicants have been scoring better than 80% in recent years, with top applicants above the 95% mark.

Should public schools raise pay to attract more of the top applicants who tend to go into higher-paying professions?

Rector Scholarships are offered to the top academic applicants offered admission to DePauw.

Photographs of applicants were made obligatory in civil service job applications, and hiring officials were given discretion to choose between the three top scoring applicants.

Instead, colleges use the SAT-optional policies to target competing colleges and try to pick off top applicants.