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The Best of the Best : Becoming Elite at an American Boarding School.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (308 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674053878
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Best of the BestDDC classification:
  • 373.2/220973
LOC classification:
  • LC4941
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Totally Elite -- 2 Getting In -- 3 Being Smart, Working Hard -- 4 Reserved Seating -- 5 Bonding Rituals -- 6 Unequal Distinctions -- 7 Envisioning an Elite Future -- Appendix: Researching Identification at an Elite Boarding School -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: For two years, the author shared the life of the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, this book reveals a small world of ambitious, intensely pressured students.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1 Totally Elite -- 2 Getting In -- 3 Being Smart, Working Hard -- 4 Reserved Seating -- 5 Bonding Rituals -- 6 Unequal Distinctions -- 7 Envisioning an Elite Future -- Appendix: Researching Identification at an Elite Boarding School -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

For two years, the author shared the life of the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, this book reveals a small world of ambitious, intensely pressured students.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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