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  • On the making of good men : character-building in the New England boarding schools
  • Chartering and bartering : elite education and social reproduction
  • Patterns of upper-class education in four American cities, 1875-1975
  • Prestige in the Ivy League : democratization and discrimination at Penn and Columbia, 1890-1970
  • Undergraduates at Elite Institutions : the best, the brightest, and the richest
  • Pathways to attendance at the elite colleges
  • Economic pay-off of prestigious colleges
  • Pathways to top corporate management
  • Inside tracks : status distinctions in allocations to elite law schools
  • Getting on the fast track : recruitment at an elite business school.