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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     Golden, Daniel, 1957-     Subjects     Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission.     Education, Higher -- United States -- Costs.     College choice -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Golden, Daniel, 1957-       by title:      The price of admissi...         MARC Display

The price of admission [electronic resource] : how America's ruling class buys its way into elite colleges--and who gets left outside the gates / Daniel Golden. by Golden, Daniel, 1957- New York : Three Rivers Press, 2007. Subjects Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission.   Education, Higher -- United States -- Costs.   College choice -- United States. Electronic Resource http://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=748A2A79-6BD9-4B2D-821A-5142F36B777A This title is available online; click here to access Electronic Resource http://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/0111-1/{748A2A79-6BD9-4B2D-821A-5142F36B777A}Img100.jpg ISBN:  9780307497376 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) 0307497372 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) Contents:  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 -- Title IX and the rise of the upper-class recruited athlete : fencing, crew, and polo scholarships -- A break for faculty brats : free and easy entry 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 : how Caltech raises standards--and donations -- Ending the preferences of privilege : suggestions for reform. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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