The Price of Admission

Author: Daniel Golden
Edition: 1
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 1400097967

The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America's most exclusive colleges. Download The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 reporting and hundreds of interviews with Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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