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Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites Mitchell L Stevens
Publisher: 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. May 21, 2014 - Removing policies that place poor kids at a disadvantage when applying to elite colleges, and instituting ones that will afford them better chances to graduate, will certainly yield long-term dividends in the fight against systemic social inequality. Jan 10, 2014 - But in most cases, high schools have a close eye on application requirements at universities and strive to produce “college ready” graduates, students who are equipped to make informed choices about the next phase of their lives and . The […] So the class inequalities at entry are exacerbated by the process. The university plans to accept its first class in September of 2014 and is working to finalize its hybrid curriculum and online delivery mechanisms. Mar 28, 2014 - Harry from Crooked Timber writes: The authors lived for a year in a “party” dorm in a large midwestern flagship public university (not mine) and kept up with the women in the dorm till after they had graduated college. 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!). Further, it seems to me that the “elite” schools do not need my child, but may want my money, so to the extent my responsible planning coupled with good fortune effected her admissions, it was not a penalty but an advantage. Furthermore The book is good and Murray Sperber's Beer and Circus: How Big-Time College Sports Is Crippling Undergraduate Education makes a good companion to it. Moving beyond that is a good thing, but we still a long way to go to create an fair and equal system. There is still time to sign up for the class. Apr 14, 2014 - A mother and physician in the South is angry that her brilliant daughter received no merit scholarships from elite schools like Duke, Wash U and U of Chicago. Jun 5, 2013 - Legacy students get a huge college admissions advantage at Ivy League universities like Harvard and Princeton. Legacy "I personally would not work for a college which had legacy admission because I am not interested in simply reproducing a multi generational lineage of educated elite. One start-up is tackling the notion of what an elite college education might look like. 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. For Princeton's class of 2015, 33% of legacy applicants were admitted. A little bit about an op-ed I read last month by Evan J. 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.