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Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites Mitchell L Stevens
Publisher: Harvard University Press

How is the new elite created and maintained? Feb 4, 2011 - The Chronicle of Higher Education. Nov 13, 2006 - See again Malcomb Gladwell's old piece in the New Yorker on modern elite college admissions which alludes back to Jerome Karabel's The Chosen (I keep plugging that book because it keeps being good!). We had an All the same, SAT Is are only useful to a point--there are plenty of studies about testing "ranges" per individual student, and that degree of variance per sitting has only gone up with the addition of the writing, making scores less useful in one respect. Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. May 19, 2012 - One thoughtful futurist at an elite institution, who is thinking about this model, told me that perhaps the alternative admissions method could feed a new school created at the university. Jul 26, 2010 - Nieli suggests that “elite colleges should get out of the diversity business altogether and focus on enrolling students who are the most academically talented and the most eager to learn. Aug 13, 2006 - But in the past few decades, the number of college-bound students has skyrocketed, and so has the number of world-class schools. People often question Stevens, Mitchell L. Apr 18, 2013 - Because students who attend a selective college are more likely to graduate than similar students who attend a community college or nonselective four-year college, the geographic dispersion of colleges creates winners and losers. Apr 22, 2010 - The Price of Admission estimates that the end of affirmative action for the privileged would open up roughly 25 percent of the places in the freshman class at elite colleges and, in so doing, free up spaces for aspiring students of modest origins. Apr 6, 2014 - Relevance: The debate between public and private education is one that is widely discussed in America. Public education system that allowed my father, child of non-english speaking Ukranian immigrants, to make it into a state university, earn a degree in engineering, raise a family, send four children through college and retire comfortably in the upper middle class. Most obviously, they are showered These counselors have the time to nurture special relationships with selective college admissions officers. Oct 28, 2013 - In the US we have placed the weight of creating a democratic citizenry and providing an avenue of equal opportunity squarely and often solely on the shoulders of our public and private education systems. Apr 7, 2013 - He suggests that “the meritocracy as we know it mostly works to perpetuate the existing upper class.” Top colleges are essential institutions in the elite's efforts to preserve itself, and students there encounter all sorts of mechanisms designed to further elite self-interest: The intermarriage of elite This would make admissions far more open than the current approach, which rewards kids born to wealthy tiger parents who know how to pad resumes. May 26, 2011 - Stevens spent 18 months working in admissions for an unnamed New England college before writing "Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites," published in 2007 by Harvard University Press. When we create a system that is not based on free-market principles or on educational merit, then we are left with a system where those that are politically and financially privilege benefit.