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Direct linkNicholas Lemann; Marvin Krislov, Contributor; Prudence Carter, Contributor; Patricia Gándara, Contributor – Princeton University Press, 2024
In the 1930s, American colleges and universities began to screen applications using the SAT, a mass-administered, IQ-descended standardized test. The widespread adoption of the test accompanied the development of the world's first mass higher education system--and served to promote the idea that the United States was becoming a…
Descriptors: Standardized Tests, Higher Education, College Entrance Examinations, College Admission
Peer reviewedJane Arnold Lincove; Jon Valant – Grantee Submission, 2024
Unified enrollment (UE) systems were designed to improve efficiency, equity, and transparency in school choice processes, but research has focused on efficiency gains. This study examines whether moving from decentralized enrollment processes to UE mitigates or exacerbates racial segregation that often occurs in choice systems. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Enrollment, School Demography, Selective Admission, Admission (School)
Jane Arnold Lincove; Jon Valant – American Educational Research Journal, 2024
Unified enrollment (UE) systems were designed to improve efficiency, equity, and transparency in school choice processes, but research has focused on efficiency gains. This study examines whether moving from decentralized enrollment processes to UE mitigates or exacerbates racial segregation that often occurs in choice systems. Specifically, we…
Descriptors: Enrollment, School Demography, Selective Admission, Admission (School)
OiYan Poon; Douglas H. Lee; Eileen Galvez; Joanne Song Engler; Bri Sérráno; Ali Raza; Jessica M. Hurtado; Nikki Kahealani Chun – Journal of Higher Education, 2024
This study focuses on how admissions at selective colleges and universities represent key racialized organizations. We analyzed data from 50 individual interviews of admissions professionals, through a theory of racialized organizations to recognize admissions as practices that consistently reproduces systemic inequities. We reveal how…
Descriptors: Colleges, Universities, College Admission, Selective Admission
Download full textJeff Strohl; Emma Nyhof; Catherine Morris – Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, 2024
In the wake of the Supreme Court's ban on race-conscious admissions, the pursuit of diversity and equity in higher education is increasingly under threat. While access to higher education has improved overall for historically underrepresented students, the quality of that opportunity remains uneven, particularly along the lines of race/ethnicity…
Descriptors: Universities, College Enrollment, Selective Admission, Affirmative Action
Allison Roda; Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj – Educational Policy, 2024
The widespread expansion of school choice policies has bolstered the consumer-education paradigm where parents compete for what they perceive to be a limited number of high quality schools. In this comparative case study, we examine advantaged White parents' perceptions of meritocracy in the context of a competitive elementary and high school…
Descriptors: Ethics, School Choice, Stress Variables, Educational Policy
