Search engines steer students with fewer resources toward schools with worse outcomes, many of them predatory for-profits.
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Affirmative Action for Lax Bros
A closer look at the Harvard admissions case now before the Supreme Court shows that it’s whites who benefit most from discrimination against Asians.
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The College Admissions Scandal Is Even Worse Than You Think
Most wealthy Americans aren’t rich enough to bribe schools the old-fashioned legal way.
Posted inEducation, Higher Education
A Glimpse Inside The College Admissions Process
The art and science of how College of the Holy Cross selects its students.
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The SAT Meritocracy
Several years ago in these pages, I reviewed a book by E. Digby Bakzell, the sociologist of the American elite (he invented the term WASP), and heartily endorsed Baltzell’s observation that the old American “Protestant Establishment” (another term Baltzell invented) had been replaced by a new “SAT meritocracy.” I suggested that the rise of the latter […]
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Making It, Part 2
This book sets off a psycho-physiological phenomenon called “reassurance-induced terror,” which can be defined roughly as the feeling you get when the pilot of the plane you’re riding in comes on the public address system to say that there’s nothing to worry about. Both the author, Bill Paul, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, and his main […]
