The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges--And Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Golden, Daniel

The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges--And Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege."--Michael Wolff, author of the #1...
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The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges--And Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Golden, Daniel

The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges--And Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

¥5,115

The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges--And Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

¥5,115
Author: Daniel Golden
Format: Paperback
Language: English
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "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 expos 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


Author: Daniel Golden
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 09/25/2007
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781400097975


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 10/28/2007 pg. 28

About the Author

Daniel Golden is a senior editor at ProPublica. He was previously a managing editor at Bloomberg News, the deputy Boston bureau chief of The Wall Street Journal, and a reporter for The Boston Globe. The recipient of many journalistic honors, including the Pulitzer Prize and three George Polk Awards, he holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College.


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