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6. Top-Tier Colleges and Privileged Social Groups

  • Joseph A. Soares
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The Power of Privilege
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© 2022 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

© 2022 Stanford University Press, Redwood City

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. List of Tables ix
  4. Foreword and Acknowledgments xi
  5. 1. Meritocracy and Its Discontents 1
  6. 2. Elite Colleges and the Search for Superior Students 13
  7. 3. Social-Class Diversity at Yale after 1950? 53
  8. 4. The Brewster Years, Meritocracy in Power? The New Administration in 1964: Kingman Brewster and Inslee Clark 72
  9. 5. The Old Machinery of Meritocracy Is Discarded: No More Predicting Grades, No More Verbal Analogies 119
  10. 6. Top-Tier Colleges and Privileged Social Groups 163
  11. Conclusions 191
  12. Notes 203
  13. Index 233
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780804768283-008

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vii
  3. List of Tables ix
  4. Foreword and Acknowledgments xi
  5. 1. Meritocracy and Its Discontents 1
  6. 2. Elite Colleges and the Search for Superior Students 13
  7. 3. Social-Class Diversity at Yale after 1950? 53
  8. 4. The Brewster Years, Meritocracy in Power? The New Administration in 1964: Kingman Brewster and Inslee Clark 72
  9. 5. The Old Machinery of Meritocracy Is Discarded: No More Predicting Grades, No More Verbal Analogies 119
  10. 6. Top-Tier Colleges and Privileged Social Groups 163
  11. Conclusions 191
  12. Notes 203
  13. Index 233
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