The price of admission
Subtitle: how America's ruling class buys its way into elite colleges--and who gets left outside the gates
By: Daniel Golden.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781400097975
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission; Education, Higher -- United States -- Costs; College choice -- United States
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the Tennessee waltz; title: How the "z-list" makes the a-list : Harvard's payback for big donors; title: Recruiting the rich : development admits at Duke; title: The fame factor : celebrity children at Brown; title: Enduring legacies : Notre Dame's other tradition; title: Title IX and the rise of the upper-class recruited athlete : fencing, crew, and polo scholarships; title: A break for faculty brats : free and easy entry for the children of professors; title: The new Jews : Asian Americans need not apply; title: The legacy establishment : taking on Congress and the higher education lobby; title: The challenge of wealth-blind admissions : how Caltech raises standards; title: and donations; title: Ending the preferences of privilege : suggestions for reform.