Rebecca Zwick is Distinguished Presidential Appointee at Educational Testing Service and Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Who Gets In? is an excellent primer for people involved in the
admissions process, and for those who would like to create a fairer
way of assessing students. Zwick does a wonderful job of making
complex assessment issues clear and accessible to a general
audience. I loved this book.
*Patricia Gándara, coauthor of The Latino Education Crisis: The
Consequences of Failed Social Policies*
A wonderfully balanced and constructively critical reflection on
the admissions strategies used by colleges and universities across
the United States. Zwick rigorously tests the most commonly used
approaches to admissions by exploring their long-term effects on
students and offers a set of practical guidelines for reform so
that universities can ensure that their admissions practices align
with their larger educational mission.
*Catherine L. Horn, coeditor of Realizing Bakke’s Legacy:
Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity, and Access to Higher
Education*
The endless debate about fairness in college admissions needs a
wise, thoughtful, informed, and far-ranging consideration of the
issues and rigorous data to support the conclusions, which is
exactly what Zwick offers in Who Gets In? Strategies for Fair and
Effective College Admissions. This book will immediately be
regarded as the definitive source on fairness in college
admissions, and I expect it to be the gold standard for years to
come.
*Bella DePaulo, author of How We Live Now: Redefining Home and
Family in the 21st Century*
A thought provoking examination of higher education’s supply
side…Thorough and informative.
*New York Journal of Books*
Zwick’s book is an invaluable resource for anyone who reflects on
or worries about the state of college admission today and what it
means for diversity in higher education.
*Diverse*
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