1st Edition

Holistic Admissions as a Global Phenomenon Improving Higher Education Practices and Policies

Edited By Michael N. Bastedo Copyright 2026
278 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

278 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This edited book brings together leading scholars to share ongoing research on the diffusion of holistic admissions practices around the world.  Many countries have adopted holistic admissions practices, and some have used them for incoming students for over two decades, but these developments have been rarely noted in policy and media discussions about university admissions.  Chapters in this... Read more

List of Contributors

 

Preface

  

Chapter 1: Holistic Admissions: Global Drivers, Global Pitfalls  

Michael Bastedo, University of Michigan  

  

Chapter 2: From Massification to Policies Representing Social Diversity: Contribution to a Non-American Centered Socio-History of Holistic Admission Processes 

Gaële Goastellec, University of Lausanne  

   

Chapter 3: Institutional Admission Programs for Equity in Chile  

Veronica Santelices and Ximena Catalan, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile  

  

Chapter 4: Challenges of Equity and Contextual Admissions in Australian Higher Education   

Andrew Harvey, Lucy Campion, and Rebecca Wren, Griffith University  

  

Chapter 5: Is Masking Information a Path to Equity? Examining the Gogyo Blind Policy in Korean Holistic Admissions  

Bo-Kyung Byun and Michael Bastedo, University of Michigan  

  

Chapter 6: Translating Holistic Review across Borders: The Case of Doctoral Student Selection  

Julie Posselt, Paul Wakeling, and Bukola Olinyole, USC and University of York  

  

Chapter 7: The Creation and Implementation of a Dual-Admissions System in Taiwan: Old Wine in New Wineskins 

Yi-Lin Chiang and Jaap Nieuwenhuis, NYU-Shanghai and University of Groningen 

  

Chapter 8: Rewarding Traditional or New Forms of Cultural Capital? The Introduction of Holistic Admissions at a French Elite Higher Education Institution      

Marine Haddad and Agnès van Zanten, Sciences Po - Paris    

  

Chapter 9: Holistic Admissions at World-Class Universities in Hong Kong  

Yabing Liu and Anatoly V. Oleksiyenko, Education University of Hong Kong  

  

Chapter 10: Contextual Admissions in English Higher Education: A Discussion of the Policy Context and Implementation  

Joanne Moore and Anna Mountford-Zimdars, University of Exeter  

  

Chapter 11: The Evolution of Admissions Policies in Singapore’s Higher Education System  

Kelvin K.C. Seah and Jessica Pan, University of Singapore   

Biography

Michael N. Bastedo is the Marvin W. Peterson Collegiate Professor of Education and the Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Affairs in the Marsal Family School of Education at the University of Michigan, U.S.