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

4 days ago - Since the federal budget outlined radical changes to higher education in Australia there has been a blitz of commentary decrying the deregulation of tuition fees. Mar 17, 2011 - As elite higher education turns prohibitively expensive and the job market shrinks, a reminder that dropping out is no guarantee of failure. 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. But will it turn out to be a Pyrrhic victory if they get in? Oct 30, 2013 - Instead, they fill their ranks with the children of the elite portrayed in Miller's article – elites who drop hundreds of thousands of dollars on private schools, exorbitant “enrichment” activities, and personal tutors that almost no Americans With tuition higher than the median US household income, students from families making $200,000 are now deemed poor enough to qualify for financial aid. 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. This is not surprising, at least for Chinese-Americans, because nowhere is educational status more evident than in mainland China, where the Ivy-bound can rise to the level of reality stardom (the thinking man's Kardashians, perhaps). Columnist for Al Jazeera English and the Chronicle of Higher Education. I came out of private school into an elite college and regularly received inquiries from professors about my high school background in recognition of the superior prepartion I received. May 14, 2013 - With over four thousand colleges to choose from, why do so few make the cut? 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. The most alarming claim levelled The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) produce an annual analysis of student applications, acceptances and university entry rates for England (where the fee and student debt changes took affect) and the wider UK. May 15, 2009 - Here's an interesting review of a book that proffers an explanation of the element of diversity in the so-called “elite” college admissions process. Jun 23, 2013 - A parallel preschool bottleneck is starting to form on the admissions lists of elite schools — demand for a world-class block-stacking education is at an all-time high, with parents making admissions pilgrimages to New York preschools from as far afield as Russia and China. The 2000 Another misplaced assumption is that graduating from an elite undergraduate school eases the way for admission to graduate school. In the next few weeks, hundreds of thousands of high school seniors around the world will begin hearing from colleges and universities in this country about whether they have been lucky enough to be accepted for admission.