From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

....money talks.....always has & always will. What humours me more is
that frequently the ones wot made the money never went near a Uni or
flunked etc.

Doing well at Uni sets you up to be academic & acedemics are never well paid.

Adam


Dave Ings wrote:
> I haven't read the book or they guy's WSJ work, but it certinaly sounds
> interesting.
>
> http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=7945858
>
> AMERICAN universities like to think of themselves as engines of social
> justice, thronging with "diversity". But how much truth is
there in this
> flattering self-image? Over the past few years Daniel Golden has written a
> series of coruscating stories in the Wall Street Journal about the
> admissions practices of America's elite universities, suggesting that they
> are not so much engines of social justice as bastions of privilege. Now he
> has produced a book-"The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling
Class Buys
> Its Way into Elite Colleges-and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates"-that
> deserves to become a classic.
>
> Mr Golden shows that elite universities do everything in their power to
> admit the children of privilege. If they cannot get them in through the
> front door by relaxing their standards, then they smuggle them in through
> the back. No less than 60% of the places in elite universities are given to
> candidates who have some sort of extra "hook", from rich or
alumni parents
> to "sporting prowess". The number of whites who benefit from this
> affirmative action is far greater than the number of blacks.

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