By Anna Mountford Zimdars
Meritocracy and the University offers an perception into the realm of college admissions. in keeping with interviews with specialist admissions employees and educational school individuals who choose scholars, the booklet explains what selectors worth and the way they make judgements. by means of shining a mild at the international of collage admissions in England and within the usa, readers are invited to mirror at the similarities and changes in who selects and the way choice is finished, the aim and undertaking of universities, and the demanding situations universities face in construction reasonable admissions strategies whilst past possibilities to polish in schooling are unequally distributed.
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