The Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite, With a New Chapter - Softcover

Avery, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674016203 ISBN 13: 9780674016200

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 applications to fourteen elite colleges and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers, this book details the advantages and pitfalls of applying early as it provides a map for students and parents to navigate the process.

About this title

About the Author:

Christopher Avery is Professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Andrew Fairbanks is former Associate Dean of Admissions at Wesleyan University.

Richard Zeckhauser is Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Review:

“The Early Admissions Game is intended as an exposé, for high-school students and their parents, of the realities of college admissions, but it is also a protest against the practice of early admissions. The authors believe that these programs benefit privileged students...[and] cheat disadvantaged students.”―Louis Menand, New Yorker

“The authors present a devastating portrait of elite college admissions--and early admissions in particular--as an elaborate and complicated 'game'...[where the winners] tend to be privileged students who have access to highly skilled counselors with information pipelines to elite college admissions offices.”―Peter Sacks, The Nation

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0674016203
• ISBN 13: 9780674016200
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400