Thanks everyone for weighing in on this. It sounds as though there's a 
selection preference solution. 

I worked around it (before seeing these suggestions) by buffering my 
points and using those polygons to select.  That worked well.



--- In [email protected], "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm working on what should be a simple analysis but am experiencing 
a 
> problem with the select by location function.  I want to select all 
> the blockgroups within a radius of some points that I have. It
> appears 
> that the polygons select only if they are ENTIRELY within the 
> specified radius and they do not select if there is merely overlap 
> with the radius.  Is there a way to adjust the select so all 
polygons 
> with any overlap at all are selected? 
> 
> Thanks much in advance,
> 
> Andrew




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