Creating a Class : : College Admissions and the Education of Elites / / Mitchell L. Stevens.
In real life, Stevens is a professor at Stanford University. But for a year and a half, he worked in the admissions office of a bucolic New England college known for its high academic standards, beautiful campus, and social conscience. Ambitious high schoolers and savvy guidance counselors know that...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2020] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 A SCHOOL IN A GARDEN
- 2 NUMBERS
- 3 TRAVEL
- 4 SPORTS
- 5 RACE
- 6 DECISIONS
- 7 YIELD
- 8 THE ARISTOCRACY OF MERIT
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX