Now, applicants can typically get final approval at staff level within a month.

In the meantime, the applicant could travel to another city and get a job.

The applicant who didn't blanch at the work confronting her got the job.

Every so often, an applicant gets the last word.

But even if our early pool were disproportionately well off, those applicants would not, as we have seen, get an admission advantage.

Recently, she said, community organizations were handed a list that included 30 centers in California where applicants could get their fingerprints.

Most applicants get a second reading from another admissions officer and then a third from a senior member of the committee.

When all goes well and the information matches up, the applicant gets the loan.

Yet most Soviet applicants are still getting refugee status.

When the applicant did not get the job, she took that as a sign of age discrimination.