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