将真实的自我转化为真实的申请:私立大学咨询和选择性大学录取

IF 3.3 1区 教育学 Q1 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH Sociology of Education Pub Date : 2023-10-30 DOI:10.1177/00380407231202975
Tiffany J. Huang
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尽管大学在努力增加社会经济和种族多样性的过程中,评估学生成绩的标准成倍增加,但名牌大学录取中的分层现象依然存在。中产阶级和富裕家庭越来越多地转向私立大学咨询等私有化服务,以应对他们认为复杂而不透明的申请过程。因此,独立教育顾问(IECs)如何向学生提供建议,可以作为了解大学招生规则是如何解释和教授给学生的一个镜头。通过对iec的50次深度访谈,我发现iec鼓励学生通过做真实的自己来做真实的自己,但展示真实需要注意一个人的真实自我将如何被感知。将真实的自我转化为真实的申请也涉及到基于阶级和种族的考虑,特别是对于容易被定型为不真实的亚裔美国学生。这些发现表明,改善多样性的努力必须谨慎实施,否则就有可能再现不平等。
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Translating Authentic Selves into Authentic Applications: Private College Consulting and Selective College Admissions
Stratification in selective college admissions persists even as colleges’ criteria for evaluating merit have multiplied in efforts to increase socioeconomic and racial diversity. Middle-class and affluent families increasingly turn to privatized services, such as private college consulting, to navigate what they perceive to be a complicated and opaque application process. How independent educational consultants (IECs) advise students can thus serve as a lens for understanding how the rules of college admissions are interpreted and taught to students. Through 50 in-depth interviews with IECs, I find that IECs encourage students to be authentic by being true to themselves but that demonstrating authenticity requires attention to how one’s authentic self will be perceived. Translating an authentic self into an authentic application also involves class-based and racialized considerations, particularly for Asian American students who are susceptible to being stereotyped as inauthentic. These findings suggest that efforts to improve diversity must be carefully implemented, or they risk reproducing inequality.
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期刊介绍: Sociology of Education (SOE) provides a forum for studies in the sociology of education and human social development. SOE publishes research that examines how social institutions and individuals’ experiences within these institutions affect educational processes and social development. Such research may span various levels of analysis, ranging from the individual to the structure of relations among social and educational institutions. In an increasingly complex society, important educational issues arise throughout the life cycle.
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