Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College

by Alexandria Walton Radford

Book Overview

Most of us think that valedictorians can write their own ticket. By reaching the top of their class they have proven their merit, so their next logical step should be to attend the nation's very best universities. Yet in Top Student, Top School?, Alexandria Walton Radford, of American Institutes for Research, reveals that many valedictorians do not enroll in prestigious institutions. Employing an original five-state study that surveyed nine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022604100X
• ISBN13: 9780226041001
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"