Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-232) and index
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Meritocracy and its discontents -- Elite colleges and the search for superior students -- Social-class diversity at Yale after 1950? -- The Brewster years, meritocracy in power? The new administration in 1964: Kingman Brewster and Inslee Clark -- The old machinery of meritocracy is discarded: no more predicting grades, no more verbal analogies -- Top-tier colleges and privileged social groups