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Choosing Colleges: How Social Class and Schools Structure Opportunity

Choosing Colleges: How Social Class and Schools Structure Opportunity

McDonough, Patricia M.

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 0791434788
ISBN13: 9780791434789
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Nov 20 1997
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.53 Width: 5.88 Depth: 9.26
Language: English

Examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges and demonstrates that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood.

Based on interviews with students, parents, and counselors as well as case studies of the college guidance environments of a working-class public school, an upper-middle-class public school, a private preparatory school, and a Catholic school, McDonough examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges. The author shows that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood and shows how families and schools mutually influence individual student outcomes and our higher education opportunity structure.

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