Medical schools, Mr. Owen adds, favor applicants who can analyze moral, ethical and cultural issues with the same facility they bring to scientific problems.

Your editorial includes the claim that "faith-based initiatives favor religious applicants for grants over secular applicants."

Mr. Olivas also believes that college admissions officers will favor applicants backed by prepayment plans.

Student leaders argue that the present examination favors applicants who had a privileged upbringing.

Given patient preferences, is it wrong for a practice with an opening to favor female applicants?

The former Chief Justice William Rehnquist favored applicants who played tennis.

Many black colleges required photographs to be submitted with applications and favored light-skinned applicants, school officials say.

Starrett's management maintained a white majority by favoring white applicants.

Employers discriminate when they favor applicants with good grades from an elite school.

Critics charge that the new hiring process is simply being used to favor well-connected applicants, which the department denies.