Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades

Blanden, Jo, Cassagneau-Francis, Oliver and Macmillan, Lindsey (2025) Elite school students end up in better universities than expected, based on their grades. British Politics and Policy at LSE (02 Oct 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Students of private and grammar schools are over-represented in elite universities. While some of that is explained by better grades, therse is also a degree of mismatch between how well students do in exams and the quality of the courses they end up in. Jo Blanden, Oliver Cassagneau-Francis, Lindsey Macmillan, Gill Wyness look at why … Continued

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Centre for Economic Performance
Subjects:	L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2025 12:54
Last Modified:	20 Nov 2025 15:22
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130216

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