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

Name: Price of Admission (Updated Edition) How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--And Who Gets Left Outside the Gates
Price: 2.58 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9781400097975

ISBN-10: 1400097975

ISBN-13: 9781400097975

Edition: 2007

Authors: Daniel Golden

List price: $18.00

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Buy used: $8.24

Marketplace

4 new & used from $2.58

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/25/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.19" wide x 8.00" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Daniel Golden is Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau ofThe Wall Street Journal, where he has covered education since 1999. Previously, he was a reporter at theBoston Globe. The recipient of numerous journalistic honors and awards, including the Pulitzer Prize and the George Polk Award, he holds a B.A. from Harvard College. He lives with his wife and son in Belmont, Massachusetts. From the Hardcover edition.