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Direct linkPosselt, Julie R. – Review of Higher Education, 2018
Privileging elite academic pedigrees in graduate admissions preserves racial and socioeconomic inequities that many institutions say they wish to reduce. To understand this preference, I integrate across perspectives on trust in rational choice, social capital, and social network theories, and use the resulting framework to interpret 68 interviews…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Ambiguity (Context)
