TY  - BOOK
AU  - Posselt,Julie R.
TI  - Inside graduate admissions: merit, diversity, and faculty gatekeeping 
SN  - 9780674915640
AV  - LB2371 .I575 2016
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Universities and colleges
KW  - United States
KW  - Graduate work
KW  - Admission
KW  - Discrimination in higher education
KW  - Minorities
KW  - Education (Higher)
KW  - Faculty
KW  - Teacher participation in administration
KW  - School Admission Criteria
KW  - Education, Graduate
KW  - Social Discrimination
KW  - Minority Groups
KW  - education
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction: Gatekeeping reconsidered --; Decision making as deliberative bureaucracy --; Meanings of merit and diversity --; Disciplinary logics --; Mirror, mirror --; The search for intelligent life --; International students and ambiguities of holistic review --; Conclusion: Merit beyond the mirror; 2; b
N2  - How does graduate admissions work? Who does the system work for, and who falls through its cracks? More people than ever seek graduate degrees, but little has been written about who gets in and why. Drawing on firsthand observations of admission committees and interviews with faculty in 10 top-ranked doctoral programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, education professor Julie Posselt pulls back the curtain on a process usually conducted in secret
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