Review of "The Chosen" - a book worth reading

Colleges and Universities A-Z Yale University
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<p>The facinating story of how today's elite school admissions operations came into existance - for less than noble reasons - and how they have evolved with quite unintended consequences.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/books/13035224.h%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/entertainment/books/13035224.h&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>also here:
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/books/chapters/1030-1st-karabel.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1130699868-X+eiAq0NAGnHi9CuBmgKog%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/30/books/chapters/1030-1st-karabel.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1130699868-X+eiAq0NAGnHi9CuBmgKog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>For those interested in such stats, there are numerous references to changing yield rates and cross-admit numbers for Harvard, Yale and Princeton in the last part of "The Chosen", covering the years between 1950 and 2002.</p>