applicant
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Graduation and retention rates make up by far the biggest weight in the rankings, but that may encourage colleges to inflate grades to ensure that unqualified applicants that they admit still graduate.
If the candidate passed that stage they may have been referred to a security check carried out by the US, which involved collecting biometric data from the applicant.
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United counter this by saying circumventing the rules just leads to a legitimate applicant missing out.
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Figures on the backlog of people waiting for an initial decision on an asylum application include both applicants and dependants.
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Those applicants weren’t screened as strictly as usual because they were likely to be existing customers and would be informally vetted by branch staff, according to people familiar with the matter.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
