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Closely related to the career books was one I recently finished called Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools, by Peter W. Cookson Jr. and Caroline Hodges Persell. A friend of mine in social anthropology recommended it a year or two ago, and I finally got around to it last month. Through a study of 65 private boarding schools, the authors describe the intense and sometimes cloistering atmosphere of the enclaves that socialize America's future leaders--places far from my own experience and understanding, but close to many students at Harvard...
...Preparing for Power: America's Elite Boarding Schools, Peter W. Cookson and Caroline Hodges Persell write "[h]istorically, a small group of boarding schools, including the select 16, have had a very close relationship with the Ivy League colleges, and with Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in particular...
...resources most leading boarding schools devote to college advisement are considerable," write Cookson and Persell. "Prep schools have responded [to the increasing difficulty involved in getting into a top college] by honing their very professional college advisory operation and by exercising what political clout they can in relation to the colleges. The result is a higher--though not perfect--payoff for elite prep school graduates, compared to other applicants...
...close personal relationships between 'select 16' college advisors and college admissions officers have been built up over a considerable number of years," write Cookson and Persell. "Despite today's competitive admissions environment, the elite prep school advisors are still listened to more closely by college admissions officers than public school counselors, suggesting that the prep school advisor is known to consistently offer the colleges a steady supply of socially elite and academically prepared students...
...days when preps could automatically expect to go to an Ivy League or other highly selective college are over," write Cookson and Persell. "They have to earn their way--or at least part of their...