Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites by Mitchell L Stevens

Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites



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Feb 8, 2012 - Khin Mai Aung, director of the educational equity program at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, said that her organization would not get involved until more data was released. While almost all college administrators and college admissions officers at the most elite institutions think in racial balancing and racial quota-like terms when they assemble their student body, they almost always deny this publicly in .. But most We hear constant stories about grade inflation at elite schools, while public universities are under tremendous pressure to pass as many wholly unqualified blacks and Hispanics as they can, given the huge number that can't even get past the remedial classes. From 1976 to 2007, the percentage of Asian Considering that Asian Americans make up only 4.5 percent of the US population, many elite universities see an overrepresented pool of Asian American applicants when they pick their freshman class. Sep 1, 2013 - The Big Reveal on Cal's holistic admissions process created much fuss, most of it on behalf of Asians who are clearly the victims of discriminatory behavior. That imperative, however, could be overruled, Powell said, by a university's legitimate concern for the educational benefits of a demographically diverse student body. Apr 7, 2013 - He suggests that “the meritocracy as we know it mostly works to perpetuate the existing upper class.” Top colleges are essential institutions in the elite's efforts to preserve itself, and students there encounter all sorts of mechanisms designed to further elite self-interest: The intermarriage of elite This would make admissions far more open than the current approach, which rewards kids born to wealthy tiger parents who know how to pad resumes. Sep 15, 2008 - Sociologist Mitchell Stevens underlines this truth in his rich ethnographic study Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites. May 21, 2011 - The existence of obstacles to Asian Americans gaining admission to elite universities stems from the perception that, as a group, they have performed relatively well in higher education. May 7, 2014 - “The program gives top-of-their-class students a world-class education in high-need fields while creating a pipeline of elite talent for the state where our workforce and economy need it the most. These students should make up the bulk of their entering classes. Sep 25, 2013 - It feeds Ivy League colleges and provides a free education that supporters believe surpasses what is offered at many of the elite private high schools in New York City. On the contrary, the We thereby create self-fulfilling prophecies." Sally Hunt, general secretary of the University and College Union, said research had shown that students from state schools outperformed their independent school contemporaries when they reached university. At SUNY, we are The sponsoring New York State Agency, called HESC, is the student financial aid agency that helps people pay for college and a national leader in providing need based grant and scholarship award money to college-going students. Feb 26, 2014 - I grew up in the country, lower middle-class but not precisely poor, playing on my Grandma's farm and spending way too much time and gas money driving around our enormous rural school district to pick up friends. May 22, 2008 - "The highly unequal class distributions seen in elite universities compared with the general population are unlikely to be due to prejudice or corruption in the admissions process.





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