Choosing ElitesKlitgaard's book provides both the analytical framework and the facts about what measures predict "success" at the university and in later life. It covers the analysis of the benefits and costs of preferential treatment, using the example of affirmative action for black students, and examines our goals for selecting elites in the first place. |
Contents
PREFACE ix | 3 |
How Admissions Works | 17 |
The Objectives of Selection | 51 |
Copyright | |
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ability academic performance achievement admissions committees admissions officers admissions policy admissions process admitted affirmative action alumni applicant pool Aptitude Test assessment center black students business school candidates CGPA chapter characteristics choosing an elite coefficients college GPA college grades correlation costs criteria David Riesman Dean difference diversity earnings Educational Testing Service Examination example first-year grade average Graduate Record Examination graduate schools group representation Harvard College Harvard Law School high-school grades HSGPA Ibid income increase institutions interviews Klitgaard later later-life success law school grades LSAT LSAT scores MCAT measures Medical School nonacademic overprediction percent percentile perfect information predictive power predictors prior grades problem professional Psychological questions ratings regression Report representation right tail sample SAT V+M SAT verbal Scholastic Aptitude Test Science selective universities social value added standard deviation statistical status student body studies test scores tion undergraduate unreliable validity variables various