The best of the best : becoming elite at an American boarding school / Ruben A. Gaztambide-Fernandez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaztambide-Fernandez, Rubén A., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Boarding schools--United States--Case studies.

Boarding schools.

Elite (Social sciences)--Education--United States--Case studies.

Elite (Social sciences).

Physical Description:

297 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For two years, Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández shared the life of what he calls the "Weston School," an elite New England boarding school. Vividly describing the pastoral landscape and graceful buildings, the rich variety of classes and activities, and the official and unofficial rules that define the school, The Best of the Best reveals a small world of deeply ambitious, intensely pressured students. For Gaztambide-Fernández, Weston is daunting yet strikingly bucolic, inspiring but frustratingly incurious, and sometimes - especially for young women - a gilded cage for a gilded age.

Contents:

Totally elite

Getting in

Being smart, working hard

Reserved seating

Bonding rituals

Unequal distinctions

Envisioning an elite future

Appendix: Researching identification at an elite boarding school.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674263741

067426374X

9780674053878

0674053877

OCLC:

648759753