Who Gets In and Why? An Examination of Admissions to America’s Most Selective Colleges and Universities

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Rubin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Selective Colleges

Where Ivy Matters: The Educational Backgrounds of U.S. Cultural Elites

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Brint ◽  
Komi T. German ◽  
Kayleigh Anderson-Natale ◽  
Zeinab F. Shuker ◽  
Suki Wang
Keyword(s):  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Political Elite ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Educational Backgrounds ◽  
Cultural Elite ◽  
Selective Colleges ◽  
Elite Formation ◽  
The U.S

Status transmission theory argues that leading educational institutions prepare individuals from privileged backgrounds for positions of prestige and power in their societies. We examine the educational backgrounds of more than 2,900 members of the U.S. cultural elite and compare these backgrounds to a sample of nearly 4,000 business and political leaders. We find that the leading U.S. educational institutions are substantially more important for preparing future members of the cultural elite than they are for preparing future members of the business or political elite. In addition, members of the cultural elite who are recognized for outstanding achievements by peers and experts are much more likely to have obtained degrees from the leading educational institutions than are those who achieve acclaim from popular audiences. By focusing on the extent to which industries and cultural domains depend on quickness and facility in the absorption and manipulation of complex and sophisticated symbolic media, our analysis leads to an important specification of the role of highly selective colleges and universities in elite formation.

Black Immigrants and Black Natives Attending Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. Massey ◽  
Margarita Mooney ◽  
Kimberly C. Torres ◽  
Camille Z. Charles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Black Immigrants ◽  
Selective Colleges

scholarly journals Early Admissions at Selective Colleges

2010 ◽  
Vol 100 (5) ◽  
pp. 2125-2156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Avery ◽  
Jonathan Levin
Keyword(s):  
Colleges And Universities ◽  
Theoretic Model ◽  
Admissions Policies ◽  
Application Behavior ◽  
Selective Colleges ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Game Theoretic Model ◽  
Basic Facts

Early admissions are widely used by selective colleges and universities. We identify some basic facts about early admissions policies, including the admissions advantage enjoyed by early applicants and patterns in application behavior, and propose a game-theoretic model that matches these facts. The key feature of the model is that colleges want to admit students who are enthusiastic about attending, and early admissions programs give students an opportunity to signal this enthusiasm. (JEL C78, I23)

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