Choosing Elites

by Robert Klitgaard and Out Of Print

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0465011063
• ISBN13: 9780465011063
• Release Date: May 1985
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A facinating book!

This is a facinating book which affords you an opportunity to look into the minds of Harvard's admissions officers. This is about how they choose and pick students.The content and research are first rate. However, the mindset is very much social engineering. I guess this kind of thoughts must have permeated Harvard.Regardless of how many ways the social engineers tried, at the end the author admits that there are few indicators of success more studied and reliable than high school grades and SAT I scores for picking students. So, there is all the fuss about essays, recommendation letters and extracurricular activities, and yet they do not have much to do with student success in college and later in adult life.What really scared me is the social engineering attitude among Harvard's administrators and professors.