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

作者：DanielGolden

出版社：BroadwayBooks

副标题：HowAmerica'sRulingClassBuysItsWayIntoEliteColleges–AndWhoGetsLeftOutsidetheGates

出版年：2007-9-25

页数：354

定价：GBP12.02

装帧：Paperback

ISBN：9781400097975

内容简介
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Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s most exclusive colleges. What they may never learn is how many candidates like themselves have been passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, or celebrities.

In this explosive book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Daniel Golden argues that America, the so-called land of opportunity, is rapidly becoming an aristocracy in which America’s richest families receive special access to elite higher education—enabling them to give their children even more of a head start. Based on two years of investigative reporting and hundreds of interviews with students, parents, school administrators, and admissions personnel—some of whom risked their jobs to speak to the author— The Price of Admission exposes the corrupt admissions practices that favor the wealthy, the powerful, and the famous.

In The Price of Admission , Golden names names, along with grades and test scores. He reveals how the sons of former vice president Al Gore, one-time Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist leapt ahead of more deserving applicants at Harvard, Brown, and Princeton. He explores favoritism at the Ivy Leagues, Duke, the University of Virginia, and Notre Dame, among other institutions. He reveals that colleges hold Asian American students to a higher standard than whites; comply with Title IX by giving scholarships to rich women in “patrician sports” like horseback riding, squash, and crew; and repay congressmen for favors by admitting their children. He also reveals that Harvard maintains a “Z-list” for well-connected but underqualified students, who are quietly admitted on the condition that they wait a year to enroll.

The Price of Admission explodes the myth of an American meritocracy—the belief that no matter what your background, if you are smart and diligent enough, you will have access to the nation’s most elite universities. It is must reading 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.

From the Hardcover edition.

作者简介
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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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还没看完，但是很好的纪实。本书生动展现了我反对国内中上层阶级呼吁的素质教育的原因，一旦选拔标准变得主观，再加上资金来源的考虑，金钱就会起到不可思议的作用。就美国而言，摆在台面上的通道有legacy and development cases. legacy 是校友的孩子，development是非校友但有捐助潜力的孩子。我校据说25%都是development cases. 和我熟的老师说， de…

在书架上躺了N年之后终于看完，非常优秀的调查性报道，可以读到很多熟悉的故事（比方前几天邀请张文宏参加过节目的Bill Frist，还有Kushner）。第九章很新鲜。

好好看，好多人名，就喜欢这种

好好看，好多人名，就喜欢这种

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