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Author Soares, Joseph A.

Title The power of privilege : Yale and America's elite colleges / Joseph A. Soares
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages)
Contents Meritocracy and its discontents -- Elite colleges and the search for superior students -- Social-class diversity at Yale after 1950? -- The Brewster years, meritocracy in power? The new administration in 1964: Kingman Brewster and Inslee Clark -- The old machinery of meritocracy is discarded: no more predicting grades, no more verbal analogies -- Top-tier colleges and privileged social groups
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-232) and index
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Subject Yale University -- Admission
SUBJECT Yale University fast
Yale university -- Admission. ram
Subject Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission
Education, Higher -- United States.
Elite (Social sciences) -- United States
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher
Elite (Social sciences)
Universities and colleges -- Admission
Elite
Hochschulbildung
Hochschulzulassung
Soziale Herkunft
Universités -- États-Unis -- Admission.
Élite (sciences sociales) -- Éducation -- États-Unis.
United States
USA
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435609013
1435609018
9780804768283
0804768285