Paul Kingston is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Lionel Lewis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at State University of New York at Buffalo.

• Tables and FiguresIntroduction: Studying Elite Schools in AmericaPaul William Kingston and Lionel S. LewisPart I: Preparatory Schools 1. On the Making of Good Men: Character-Building in the New England Boarding SchoolsChristopher F. Armstrong2. Chartering and Bartering: Elite Education and Social ReproductionCaroline Hodges Persell and Peter W. Cookson, Jr. Part II: Elite Undergraduate Institutions 3. Patterns of Upper-Class Education in Four American Cities: 1875–1975Richard Farnum4. Prestige in the Ivy League: Democratization and Discrimination at Penn and Columbia, 1890–1970Richard Farnum5. Undergraduates at Elite Institutions: The Best, the Brightest, and the RichestPaul William Kingston and Lionel S. Lewis6. Pathways to Attendance at the Elite CollegesJames C. Hearn7. The Economic Pay-Off of Prestigious CollegesPaul William Kingston and John C. Smart8. Pathways to Top Corporate ManagementMichael Useem and Jerome KarabelPart III: Professional Schools 9. The Inside Tracks: Status Distinctions in Allocations to Elite Law SchoolsCharles L. Cappell and Ronald M. Pipkin10. Getting on the Fast Track: Recruitment at an Elite Business SchoolPaul William Kingston and James G. Clawson Author Index Subject Index

"Elite preparatory schools and elite colleges have been neglected in the sociological literature. The research contained in this book suggests that recruitment to elite positions operates differently from recruitment to middle-class positions. This is highly significant." — C. Hurn, University of Massachusetts