From: "Dave Ings" 

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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Regards,
Dave Ings,
Toronto, Canada

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