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The Price of Admission (Updated Edition)
Daniel Golden
其他書名
How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
出版
Crown
, 2009-01-21
主題
Education / Schools / Levels / Higher
Education / Educational Policy & Reform / General
Social Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN
0307497372
9780307497376
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=o4Xm2vDh_wcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER
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“A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”—Michael Wolff, author of the #1
New York Times
bestseller
Fire and Fury,
in the
New York Times Book Review
NOW WITH NEW REPORTING ON OPERATION VARSITY BLUES
In this explosive and prescient book, based on three years of investigative reporting, Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden shatters the myth of an American meritocracy. Naming names, along with grades and test scores, Golden lays bare a corrupt system in which middle-class and working-class whites and Asian Americans are routinely passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, and celebrities. He reveals how a family donation got Jared Kushner into Harvard, and how colleges comply with Title IX by giving scholarships to rich women in “patrician sports” like horseback riding and crew.
With a riveting new chapter on Operation Varsity Blues, based on original reporting,
The Price of Admission
is a must-read—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.
Praise for
The Price of Admission
“A disturbing exposé of the influence that wealth and power still exert on admission to the nation’s most prestigious universities.”
—
The Washington Post
“Deserves to become a classic.”
—
The Economist