college admissions scandal 
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/19/19
How Low-Income Students Fare at Elite Colleges
by Clint Smith
Unwritten rules underlie all of elite-university life—and students who don’t come from a wealthy background have a hard time navigating them.
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SOURCE: Boston Globe
3/18/19
Americans don’t believe in meritocracy — they believe in fake-it-ocracy
by Niall Ferguson
This illegal “side door” into college came into existence because the back door of a fat donation — like the $2.5 million paid by Jared Kushner’s father to Harvard — isn’t 100 percent reliable.
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