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The issue of the stresses felt by students in elite school districts has gained attention in recent years as schools in places like Newton, Massachusetts, and Palo Alto have reported a number of suicides.

They try to develop their skills through close supervision and organized activities, and teach children to question authority figures and navigate elite institutions.

There are also dozens of summer camps—many attached to universities—that aim to prepare elite math students.

Over the next five years, the group helps the students get into other elite summer math programs, high-performing high schools, and eventually college.

Interest in elite high school math competitions has grown in recent years, and in light of last summer's U.S. win at the International Math Olympiad —the first for an American team in more than two decades— the trend is likely to continue.

Elite high school math competitions are attracting more interest throughout the United States.

Contestants of elite high school math competitions are mostly Asian and white students from well-off families.

Recruiters circle elite universities like vultures .

Graduates from elite universities usually can get decent jobs.

An upper-second class degree, from an elite university.

The reality of it is that a lot of low-income kids could be going to elite universities on a full ride scholarship and don't even realize it.

Still, Jones represents a small percentage of first-generation students who are able to gain entry into more elite universities, which are often known for robust financial aid packages and remarkably high graduation rates for first-generation students.

Some elite universities attach great importance to building up the first-generation student's self-confidence.

It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population, Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year colleges, and commuter state schools.

Elite universities tend to graduate first-generation students at a higher rate.

According to a marketing executive, many students from low-income families don't know they could have a chance of going to an elite university.

Asia led the way, with the biggest number from China followed by Japan and India, most European and Asian universities provide an elite service to a small numberof people.

Their answer:"Broad-based welfare-state policies hinder women's representation in elite competitive positions.

Swedish family policies, by accommodating women's preferences effectively, are reducing the number of women in elite competitive positions

More American women hold elite job positions in business than Swedish women.

Since 2003 the small, elite liberal arts school in Brunswick, Maine, has boosted the proportion of so-called under-represented minority students in entering freshman classes from 8% to 13%.

Some critics blame affirmative action – students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at elite schools

At the same time, perhaps inevitably, the humanities—while still popular in elite colleges and universities—have experienced a significant decline.

"It's not only the selective and elite institutions that provide those opportunities for a small subset of this population," Rubinoff said, adding that a majority of first-generation undergraduates tend toward options such as online programs, two-year col

Many top firms will not even look at applications from those who lack a 2.1, i.e., an upper-second class degree, from an elite university.

Recruiters circle elite universities like vultures.

They were likely hired by one of the city's elite.

In order to ensure that elite women have more such opportunities, they have proposed imposing government quotas.

The Olympic bidders, by contrast, wanted to get more people doing sports and to produce more elite athletes.

The research of till Von Wachter, the economist in Columbia University, suggests that not all people graduating into a recession see their life chances dimmed: those with degrees from elite universities catch up fairly quickly to where they otherwise woul

Writing in The New Republic, Alice Lee notes that increasing the number of opportunities for board membership without increasing the pool of qualified women to serve on such boards has led to a "golden skirt" phenomenon, where the same elite women scoop u