Certainly, most schools count them in an applicant's favor.
Duffey knew that she was very much like himself, and he counted this as totally in her favor.
She also thought that being a freshman legislator might count in her favor here.
I cannot guarantee the result, but if you co-operate with us now, it will count in your favor.
That ought to count in our favor, even if the other half of the project is going more slowly than we thought it would.
The fact that he had serious doubts about Unity and resolved them counts heavily in his favor.
I was guilty, but there were circumstances that would have counted in my favor had I been white.
Still, he doubted that the incident would count in his favor.
"I think the Democrats are playing dirty because they don't stop looking for ways to count votes in their favor," she said.
The warning they'd radioed back would count in their favor, of course.