No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal: Race and Class in Elite College Admission and Campus Life

569 Pages·2009·2.27 MB·English

by  Thomas J. Espenshade

No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal
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No Longer Separate,
Not Yet Equal
Race and Class
in Elite College Admission
and Campus Life
Thomas J. Espenshade
and Alexandria Walton Radford
in collaboration with chang young chung
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
princeton and oxford
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Copyright © 2009 by Princeton University Press
Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, New Jersey 08540
In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, 6 Oxford Street, Woodstock,
Oxfordshire OX20 1TW
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Espenshade, Thomas J.
No longer separate, not yet equal : race and class in elite college
admission and campus life / Thomas J. Espenshade and Alexandria Walton
Radford ; in collaboration with Chang Young Chung.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-691-14160-2 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Minorities—Education
(Higher)—United States. 2. Minority college students—United
States—Social conditions. 3. Private universities and colleges—United
States—Admission. 4. Elite (Social sciences)—United States.
I. Radford, Alexandria Walton, 1980– II. Chung, Chang Young. III. Title.
LC3731.E86 2009
371.82—dc22 2009001389
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
This book has been composed in sabon
Printed on acid-free paper. ∞
press.princeton.edu
Printed in the United States of America
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To Our Families
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CONTENTS
List of Illustrations
ix
Acknowledgments
xvii
Chapter One
Overview
1
Chapter Two
Preparing for College
14
Chapter Three
What Counts in Being Admitted?
62
Chapter Four
The Entering Freshman Class
130
Chapter Five
Mixing and Mingling on Campus
176
Chapter Six
Academic Performance
226
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viii CONTENTS
Chapter Seven
Shouldering the Financial Burden
263
Chapter Eight
Broader Perspectives on the Selective College Experience
298
Chapter Nine
Do We Still Need Affi rmative Action?
339
Chapter Ten
Where Do We Go from Here?
378
Appendix A
The NSCE Database
411
Appendix B
Notes on Methodology
431
Appendix C
Additional Tables
462
References
483
Index
523
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