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

Feb 26, 2014 - I grew up in the country, lower middle-class but not precisely poor, playing on my Grandma's farm and spending way too much time and gas money driving around our enormous rural school district to pick up friends. Dec 2, 2012 - It offers data suggesting that over the last few decades the most elite US colleges have had systematically biased admissions, against asians and for jews, when measured against other standards, like tests and top math/sci competitions. Building a postsecondary system polarized by race, ethnicity, and class . The way the college admissions rat race is currently structu red? In the postindustrial economy, educational attainment, especially post- secondary educational attainment, has replaced the industrial concept of class as the . That being said, private higher education is shifting from education to trading in yet another kind of valuable paper, monetizing the existing reputation and relying more on marketing to create/maintain reputation. Of access to elite careers, as well as a powerful marker for social. Aug 19, 2013 - The study found that BRIC countries are pouring money into their elite colleges in an effort to create world-class institutions and have their graduates compete with the United States and Europe. Is IncreasIng InequalIty, and wHat to do about It. Jan 31, 2014 - Finance and Marketing double major from top big-ten undergrad business program (think: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin); 3.2 GPA; masters classes for TFA = 3.7 GPA; College leadership included being President of Fraternity my consulting and education reform interests – much decorated, including admission to international accelerator program; involved in a host of other smaller extracurricular activities spread across my college fraternity, TFA, Accenture, etc. Apr 13, 2014 - It is apparent that college education costs and health insurance are the two arenas that have defied gravity over the past six years through this recovery. Archy of test-based admissions requirements. We'll ask these questions of our guest, Mitchell Stevens, author of Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. Most of us took the The problem of course is that in a winner-take-all-market such as elite university admissions, once even a few people engage in these competitive behaviors it costs everyone else not to engage in them also. Researchers say the elite colleges are much better for the focused investment, and Students read college application forms for admission to undergraduate courses at Delhi University in New Delhi, India. Feb 7, 2013 - How IncreasIng college access. Apr 9, 2013 - …the things that we achieved were basically within reach of a normal human being who was going about the business of growing up: playing a sport, perhaps badly; taking classes; occasionally volunteering as a candy striper.