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Introduction of the ebook: The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges–And Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

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Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s most exclusive colleges. What they may never learn is how many candidates like themselves have been passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, or celebrities.

In this explosive book, the Pulit Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s most exclusive colleges. What they may never learn is how many candidates like themselves have been passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, or celebrities.

In this explosive book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Daniel Golden argues that America, the so-called land of opportunity, is rapidly becoming an aristocracy in which America’s richest families receive special access to elite higher education—enabling them to give their children even more of a head start. Based on two years of investigative reporting and hundreds of interviews with students, parents, school administrators, and admissions personnel—some of whom risked their jobs to speak to the author—The Price of Admission exposes the corrupt admissions practices that favor the wealthy, the powerful, and the famous.

In The Price of Admission, Golden names names, along with grades and test scores. He reveals how the sons of former vice president Al Gore, one-time Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist leapt ahead of more deserving applicants at Harvard, Brown, and Princeton. He explores favoritism at the Ivy Leagues, Duke, the University of Virginia, and Notre Dame, among other institutions. He reveals that colleges hold Asian American students to a higher standard than whites; comply with Title IX by giving scholarships to rich women in “patrician sports” like horseback riding, squash, and crew; and repay congressmen for favors by admitting their children. He also reveals that Harvard maintains a “Z-list” for well-connected but underqualified students, who are quietly admitted on the condition that they wait a year to enroll.

The Price of Admission explodes the myth of an American meritocracy—the belief that no matter what your background, if you are smart and diligent enough, you will have access to the nation’s most elite universities. It is must reading not only for parents and students with a personal stake in college admissions, but also for those disturbed by the growing divide between ordinary and privileged Americans. …more

Review ebook The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges–And Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

I think this was a well researched book detailing something we all know instinctually. I found some of the other reviews of this book to be kind of dumb, like why wouldn’t a book about the ways in meritocracy isn’t the actual determining factor for who gets access to prestige be cynical. It’s a book on investigative journalism work, of course it’s going to detail exact instances when these things happened. I mostly found it kind of naive on the writers part that he seemed to think these institut I think this was a well researched book detailing something we all know instinctually. I found some of the other reviews of this book to be kind of dumb, like why wouldn’t a book about the ways in meritocracy isn’t the actual determining factor for who gets access to prestige be cynical. It’s a book on investigative journalism work, of course it’s going to detail exact instances when these things happened. I mostly found it kind of naive on the writers part that he seemed to think these institutions ever were more than a way to confer prestige on specific classes of people to begin with and then became this way. I also don’t agree with the notion of meritocracy either or the idea of not allowing equal access to a quality education to anyone who wants it and so I didn’t really agree with the solutions offered up at the end. …more