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0618574581

061877355X

9780618574582

9780618773558

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the hidden history of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton /

Jerome Karabel.

Boston :

Houghton Mifflin,

2005.

viii, 711 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part I: The origins of selective admissions, 1900-1933 -- Elite education and the protestant ethos -- The big three before selective admissions -- Harvard and the battle over restriction -- The "Jewish problem" at Yale and Princeton -- Part II: The struggle over meritocracy, 1933-1965 -- Harvard's Conant: the man and his ideals -- The reality of admissions under Conant -- Reluctant reform comes to Yale -- Princeton: the club expands its membership -- Wilbur Bender and his legacy -- Tradition and change at old Nassau -- Yale: from insularity to inclusion -- Part III: Inclusion and the persistence of privilege, 1965-2005 -- Inky Clark, Kingman Brewster and the revolution at Yale -- Racial conflict and the incorporation of Blacks -- Coeducation and the struggle for gender equality -- The alumni revolt at Yale and Princeton -- Diversity, the Bakke case, and the defense of autonomy -- Money, the market ethos, and the struggle for position -- The battle over merit.

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The author presents the findings of his survey of admissions at Princeton, revealing a century of exclusion that cuts to the core of the American experience, while raising questions about the stratification of higher education in America.

New Haven (Conn.)-- Yale University.

Princeton (N.J.)-- Universität.

Harvard University

Princeton University

Yale University

Education, Higher-- United States-- History.

Universities and colleges-- Atlantic States-- Admission.

Enseignement supérieur-- États-Unis-- Histoire.

Universités-- États de l'Atlantique (États-Unis)-- Admission.

81.80 tertiary education.

81.80 tertiary education.

Admission.

Education, Higher.

Elite.

Enseignement supérieur-- États-Unis.

Harvard university-- Admission.

Harvard university.

Hochschulzulassung

Högskoleadministration.

Princeton University.

Universités-- Admission-- États-Unis.

Universities and colleges-- Admission.

Yale university-- Admission.

Yale University.

United States, Atlantic States.

United States.

United States.

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