The price of admission how America's ruling class buys its way into elite colleges--and who gets left outside the gates
| Main Author: | Golden, Daniel, 1957- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Crown Publishers,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : the Tennessee waltz
- How the "z-list" makes the a-list : Harvard's payback for big donors
- Recruiting the rich : development admits at Duke
- The fame factor : celebrity children at Brown
- Enduring legacies : Notre Dame's other tradition
- Title IX and the rise of the upper-class recruited athlete : fencing, crew, and polo scholarships
- A break for faculty brats : free and easy entry for the children of professors
- The new Jews : Asian Americans need not apply
- The legacy establishment : taking on Congress and the higher education lobby
- The challenge of wealth-blind admissions : how Caltech raises standards
- and donations
- Ending the preferences of privilege : suggestions for reform.