Inside Graduate Admissions : : Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping / / Julie R. Posselt.

How does graduate admissions work? Who does the system work for, and who falls through its cracks? More people than ever seek graduate degrees, but little has been written about who gets in and why. Drawing on firsthand observations of admission committees and interviews with faculty in 10 top-ranke...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 12 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Decision Making as Deliberative Bureaucracy
  • Chapter Two. Meanings of Merit and Diversity
  • Chapter Three. Disciplinary Logics
  • Chapter Four. Mirror, Mirror
  • Chapter Five. The Search for Intelligent Life
  • Chapter Six. International Students and Ambiguities of Holistic Review
  • Conclusion
  • Methodological Appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index