Creating a Class

College Admissions and the Education of Elites

Mitchell L. Stevens

    Introduction

    1. A School in a Garden

    2. Numbers

    3. Travel

    4. Sports

    5. Race

    6. Decisions

    7. Yield

    8. The Aristocracy of Merit

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Creating a Class
  • A photo of the author

Mitchell L. Stevens is Associate Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology at Stanford University. He is the author of Kingdom of Children: Culture and Controversy in the Homeschooling Movement.