The Review of Higher Education

Dubrow, Greg.
The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates (review)
The Review of Higher Education - Volume 30, Number 4, Summer 2007, pp. 476-477

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Greg Dubrow - The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates (review) - The Review of Higher Education 30:4 The Review of Higher Education 30.4 (2007) 476-477 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Greg Dubrow Director of Policy, Planning, and Analysis, Office of Admissions and Enrollment, University of California at Berkeley Daniel Golden. The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. New York: Crown Publishing Group, 2006. 323 pp. Cloth: $25.95. ISBN: 978-1-4000-9796-8. The first thing that strikes the reader about Daniel Golden's The Price of Admission is the populist stance taken by, of all people, the Wall Street Journal's Boston bureau chief. Golden's central premise is that the admissions process at selective colleges and universities has been corrupted by preferences for children of wealthy families. Golden's populist argument against admissions preference for legacies and...