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Breaking Ranks: How the Rankings Industry Rules Higher Education and What to Do about It
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What Are Universities for?
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The Liberal Arts at Sewanee A History of Teaching and Learning at the University of the South
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Acceptance: A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right Colleges—and Find Themselves
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The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
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Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
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The UCAS Guide to Getting Into University and College
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Creating a Class: College Admissions and the Education of Elites
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SAT Wars: The Case for Test-Optional College Admissions
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Hold Fast to Dreams: A College Guidance Counselor, His Students, and the Vision of a Life Beyond Poverty
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Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities
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Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College
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The State Must Provide: Why America's Colleges Have Always Been Unequal―and How to Set Them Right
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College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students
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The International Family Guide to US University Admissions
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Top Student, Top School?: How Social Class Shapes Where Valedictorians Go to College
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Game On: Why College Admission Is Rigged and How You Can Beat the System
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Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions
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The College Conversation: A Practical Companion for Parents to Guide Their Children Along the Path to Higher Education
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Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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Crafting a Class: College Admissions & Financial Aid, 1955-1994
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The Merit Myth: How Our Colleges Favor the Rich and Divide America
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The Stressed Years of Their Lives: Helping Your Kid Survive and Thrive During Their College Years
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The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
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The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students
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In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities
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The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton – A Landmark History of Elite College Merit and American Opportunity
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How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
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The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions
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Unacceptable: Privilege, Deceit & the Making of the College Admissions Scandal
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The Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America
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Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
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A University Education
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Who are Universities For?: Re-making Higher Education
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Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education (Thomas Jefferson Foundation Distinguished Lecture Series)
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Paying the Price: College Costs, Financial Aid, and the Betrayal of the American Dream
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