The ChosenA landmark, revelatory history of admissions from 1900 to todayand how it shaped a nation The competition for a spot in the Ivy Leaguewidely considered the ticket to successis fierce and getting fiercer. But the admissions policies of elite universities have long been both tightly controlled and shrouded in secrecy. In The Chosen, the Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel lifts the veil on a century of admission and exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and

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