The elite colleges have not been giving much of a break to the low-income students who apply.

Once, small elite colleges filled their teams with students who happened to be good athletes on the side.

Athletes get better treatment even at elite colleges, according to one academic study.

He was poor boy with no scholarship in an elite college.

Getting perfect grades and attending an elite college was one of the few ways up I could see.

Many applied to only a single elite college, never doubting that they would get in.

Such is also the story of admission to the elite colleges and universities in this country.

That edge, parents say, will make them more attractive to the elite colleges.

Other elite colleges are also admitting high numbers of Asian students.

And nowhere is this more true than at an elite college like Harvard.

The student body is relatively balanced in its political outlook compared to most elite colleges and universities.

These elite colleges are so expensive that even many high-income students receive large grants.

Finalists have traditionally been ardently courted by elite American colleges.

Their leaders dress in 3-piece suits now and send their kids here to go to our most elite colleges.

Many women at the nation's most elite colleges say they have already decided that they will put aside their careers in favor of raising children.

To the Editor: You say many women at the most elite colleges intend to "put aside their careers in favor of raising children."

It is then occasionally revealed that the band members attended elite colleges.

Bill Pennington discusses recruiting at elite small colleges at nytimes.com/sports.

At many elite private colleges, admission is divorced from financial aid.

A cynic might suspect that the tuition at some elite private colleges has nothing to do with costs.