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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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 -- The rise of the upper-class recruited athlete : fencing, crew, and polo scholarships -- A break for faculty brats : tuition subsidies 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 : maintaining standards and donations at Caltech -- Ending the preferences of privilege : suggestions for reform.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Crown Publishers, c2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 323 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1400097967
SUBJECTS
Universities and colleges -- Admission.
Education, Higher -- Costs.
College choice.