Inside Graduate Admissions: Merit, Diversity, and Faculty Gatekeeping

by Julie Posselt

Book Overview

Advanced degrees are necessary for careers that once required only a college education. Yet little has been written about who gets into grad school and why. Julie Posselt pulls back the curtain on this secret process, revealing how faculty evaluate applicants in top-ranked doctoral programs in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674088697
• ISBN13: 9780674088696
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.4"