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The Price of Admission audiobook

  • By: Daniel Golden
  • Narrator: Nancy Linari
  • Category: Education, Higher
  • Length: 12 hours 6 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2019
  • Language: English
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The Price of Admission Audiobook Summary

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of superprivilege.”—Michael Wolff, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Fire and Fury, in the New York Times Book Review
 
NOW WITH NEW REPORTING ON OPERATION VARSITY BLUES

In this explosive and prescient book, based on three years of investigative report­ing, Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Golden shatters the myth of an American meri­tocracy. Naming names, along with grades and test scores, Golden lays bare a corrupt system in which middle-class and working-class whites and Asian Ameri­cans are routinely passed over in favor of wealthy white students with lesser credentials—children of alumni, big donors, and celebrities. He reveals how a family donation got Jared Kushner into Harvard, and how colleges comply with Title IX by giving scholarships to rich women in “patrician sports” like horseback riding and crew.
 
With a riveting new chapter on Operation Varsity Blues, based on original re­porting, The Price of Admission is a must-read—not only for parents and students with a personal stake in college admissions but also for those disturbed by the growing divide between ordinary and privileged Americans.

Praise for The Price of Admission
 
“A disturbing exposé of the influence that wealth and power still exert on admission to the nation’s most prestigious universities.”The Washington Post

“Deserves to become a classic.”The Economist
 

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Narrator Nancy Linari
Length 12 hours 6 minutes
Author Daniel Golden
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date May 01, 2024
ISBN 9780593170946

Subjects

The publisher of the The Price of Admission is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: nonfiction books, teens, child development books, social media, social psychology, al gore, parenting, race, economics, sociology, learning, law, investigative journalism, journalism, fraud, act, sat, gre, college, admission, admissions, white privilege, privilege, elite, college admissions, education, higher education, social inequality, Duke University, Brown University, Harvard, meritocracy, college books, graduation, graduation gift, graduation gifts, college gifts, college student, social justice, sociology books, history, Education, Higher, Education, Educational Policy & Reform, General, Social Science, Social Classes The BISAC Subject Code is Education, Higher

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The publisher of the The Price of Admission is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593170946.

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