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　　Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income

high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s

most exclusive colleges. 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 students, parents, school administrators, and

admissions personnel—some of whom risked their jobs to speak to the

author—The Price of Admission exposes the corrupt admissions

practices that favor the wealthy, the powerful, and the

famous.

In The Price of Admission, Golden names names, along with grades

and test scores. He reveals how the sons of former vice president

Al Gore, one-time Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and Senate

Majority Leader Bill Frist leapt ahead of more deserving applicants

at Harvard, Brown, and Princeton. He explores favoritism at the Ivy

Leagues, Duke, the University of Virginia, and Notre Dame, among

other institutions. He reveals that colleges hold Asian American

students to a higher standard than whites; comply with Title IX by

giving scholarships to rich women in “patrician sports” like

horseback riding, squash, and crew; and repay congressmen for

favors by admitting their children. He also reveals that Harvard

maintains a “Z-list” for well-connected but underqualified

students, who are quietly admitted on the condition that they wait

a year to enroll.

The Price of Admission explodes the myth of an American

meritocracy—the belief that no matter what your background, if you

are smart and diligent enough, you will have access to the nation’s

most elite universities. It is must reading 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.

From the Hardcover edition.

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　　Daniel Golden is Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau of

The Wall Street Journal, where he has covered education since 1999.

Previously, he was a reporter at the Boston Globe. The recipient of

numerous journalistic honors and awards, including the Pulitzer

Prize and the George Polk Award, he holds a B.A. from Harvard

College. He lives with his wife and son in Belmont,

Massachusetts.

　　From the Hardcover edition.

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　　“A delicious account of gross inequities in high places. . . .

[Golden] is the Ida Tarbell of college admissions. . . . A

fire-breathing, righteous attack on the culture of

super-priviledge.”

　　–Michael Wolff, New York Times Book Review

　　“Deserves to become a classic. . . . Why do Mr Golden's findings

matter so much? The most important reason is that America is

witnessing a potentially explosive combination of trends. Social

inequality is rising at a time when the escalators of social

mobility are slowing.”

　　–The Economist

　　“I was bowled over by The Price of Admission. Daniel Golden makes

a frightening case for why the playing field in higher education is

still not level, despite all the attempts during the past several

decades to make it so. This book is essential reading for anyone

connected with higher education.” -Henry Louis Gates, Jr., W.E.B.

Du Bois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard

　　“I didn’t want to believe that rich families and celebrities buy

places for their children in America’s best colleges. But Daniel

Golden’s evidence is overwhelming. This book should be read by

everyone who cares about preserving higher education as a route for

developing talent, not rewarding privilege.”

　　-Diane Ravitch, research professor of education, New York

University, and author of Left Back

　　“If you did not attend or do not teach at a prestigious

university, do not play polo well enough to pass it on, and do not

have a cool million lying around to buy a place in the freshman

class, your child might not make it into the school he or she

deserves to attend. Daniel Golden explains why in this passionately

written and bitingly acute book.”

　　-Alan Wolfe, professor of political science, Boston College, and

author of One Nation, After All

　　“Daniel Golden makes a trenchant and convincing case that

admission to America’s elite universities has too often turned into

a system for reinforcing wealth and privilege, rather than opening

new opportunities. He names names—and test scores, and family

donation levels. In the wake of this book, the university

establishment has some explaining to do.”

　　-James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic Monthly, and

author of Blind into Baghdad

　　“Anyone who believes that affirmative action for minority

students is the big threat to college admissions by merit should

confront Golden’s evidence that most elite colleges show much

larger preferences for the privileged and the connected. I hope the

book helps move colleges toward more equitable practices.”

　　—Gary Orfield, professor of education and social policy, Harvard

Graduate School of Education

　　“Daniel Golden pulls back the curtain on the world of selective

college admissions, where the already privileged are the truly

preferred. With vigorous prose and artful anecdotes, Golden tells a

chilling story of double standards and double crossings. He reminds

us that when elite college admissions go to the highest bidders, we

all pay the price.”

　　-Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey Professor, Harvard Law School, and

author of Lift Every Voice

　　“If you or your child is applying to a selective college this

year, here's a reading assignment: Pick up a copy of The Price of

Admission , a new book by Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel

Golden. It'll either give you a useful view into how the elite

admissions game works or just leave you disgusted about the whole

enterprise. Actually, probably both. Mr. Golden's subject is the

root unfairness in the way elite colleges choose who wins the

coveted spots in their freshman classes. . . . Mr. Golden, himself

a Harvard alum, details the ways colleges chase after the children

of the rich and powerful, like paparazzi pursuing Paris

Hilton.”

　　– Benton, Dallas Morning News

　　“An important new book. . . . With clarity and moral force,

Golden shows that our greatest universities have been sacrificing

their highest ideals on behalf of base pursuits unworthy of their

names.”

　　–Education Sector

　　“The Price of Admission is perfect for those curious about what

goes on in college admissions offices because it shatters

assumptions about acceptance to elite colleges. . . . The Price of

Admission forces the reader to wonder how affirmative action can be

deemed controversial when favoritism of the white and wealthy is

overly prominent in elite colleges. . . . [F]or those interested in

the injustices in higher education, this book is a

must-read."

　　–Kansas City Star

　　“[Golden’s] book arose from a series of investigative articles

written for the Journal about how the wealthy, the famous, and the

well-connected receive preferential treatment in getting their kids

into elite colleges. Golden's goal, which he achieves with an

overwhelming amount of solid evidence gleaned from two years of

tireless research, is to spotlight ‘a reality elite universities

pretend doesn't exist - that money and connections are increasingly

tainting college admissions, undermining both its credibility and

value to American democracy.’ . . . Who suffers in all this? Golden

calls them ‘the unhooked,’ middle- and lower-income students who

might have outstanding academic records or tremendous potential but

who get squeezed out because their families aren't rich, famous, or

politically connected. At elite colleges, admissions is ‘a zero-sum

game,’ says Golden, and self-congratulatory rhetoric about level

playing fields and socioeconomic diversity runs up against the

reality that ‘a large proportion of slots at these universities are

reserved for the rich.’ So, in higher education, as in politics,

access to healthcare and so much else in America, money talks. And,

as the gap widens between the haves and the have-nots, money

shouts. If you're ‘shocked’ by this, you haven't been paying close

attention.”

　　–Boston Globe

　　“Golden has fun making trouble in the best journalistic sense. .

. . The Price of Admission is a powerful reminder that the public

will increasingly require selective colleges to defend their

preferences; that not all are prepared to make their complex case

well; and that some of their practices, finally, seem indefensible

today.”

　　–Harvard Magazine

　　From the Hardcover edition.

书籍介绍

Every spring thousands of middle-class and lower-income high-school seniors learn that they have been rejected by America’s most exclusive colleges. 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 students, parents, school administrators, and admissions personnel—some of whom risked their jobs to speak to the author— The Price of Admission exposes the corrupt admissions practices that favor the wealthy, the powerful, and the famous.

In The Price of Admission , Golden names names, along with grades and test scores. He reveals how the sons of former vice president Al Gore, one-time Hollywood power broker Michael Ovitz, and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist leapt ahead of more deserving applicants at Harvard, Brown, and Princeton. He explores favoritism at the Ivy Leagues, Duke, the University of Virginia, and Notre Dame, among other institutions. He reveals that colleges hold Asian American students to a higher standard than whites; comply with Title IX by giving scholarships to rich women in “patrician sports” like horseback riding, squash, and crew; and repay congressmen for favors by admitting their children. He also reveals that Harvard maintains a “Z-list” for well-connected but underqualified students, who are quietly admitted on the condition that they wait a year to enroll.

The Price of Admission explodes the myth of an American meritocracy—the belief that no matter what your background, if you are smart and diligent enough, you will have access to the nation’s most elite universities. It is must reading 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.

From the Hardcover edition.

• 作者：Marni 发布时间：2020-05-14 09:47:02

  好好看，好多人名，就喜欢这种

• 作者：吃松果的猪 发布时间：2020-05-09 18:11:21

  还没看完，但是很好的纪实。本书生动展现了我反对国内中上层阶级呼吁的素质教育的原因，一旦选拔标准变得主观，再加上资金来源的考虑，金钱就会起到不可思议的作用。就美国而言，摆在台面上的通道有legacy and development cases. legacy 是校友的孩子，development是非校友但有捐助潜力的孩子。我校据说25%都是development cases. 和我熟的老师说， development office工作就是拍有钱人马屁。没摆在台面上的录取渠道是靠富人体育运动特招，如马球、壁球、赛艇等。以前以为美国藤校多么厉害，直到我自己给本科生做了TA, wealthy kids 的反智和傲慢让人震惊，而他们享受的资源是北大清华都比不上的。

• 作者：(。-`ω´-) 发布时间：2021-03-31 20:17:09

  树会扭曲时间。

• 作者：这么近，那么远 发布时间：2018-12-13 20:20:03

  可以。足本。

• 作者：makzhou 发布时间：2020-03-29 12:16:32

  在书架上躺了N年之后终于看完，非常优秀的调查性报道，可以读到很多熟悉的故事（比方前几天邀请张文宏参加过节目的Bill Frist，还有Kushner）。第九章很新鲜。

• 作者：卡萨布兰卡 发布时间：2024-04-24 17:30:04

  已经看过老三国志，看介绍很有兴趣，故买了今注版三国志和梁书。无他，便宜尔。但看了还是对这些今注很失望，洋洋洒洒一大堆，但真正有价值的十无一二，可以八成以上都是地名，官名和勘误，而且一再重复（比如三国志几乎每节都要介绍下孝廉）基本没有阅读价值。我觉得这种重复注低质注还不如不上。有时候想扩展阅读比如裴注中的人物想了解下生平，但翻到注却又是个地名或官名的解释你知道有多失望吗？见微知著，更昂贵的新版也不会再考虑了

• 贫居差距和阶级矛盾的必然结果

  作者：Pru 发布时间：2013-10-25 10:05:20

• 教育平等与金钱特权——与陶程凯先生商榷

  作者：sdqd 发布时间：2014-03-24 14:21:19

         3月16日，《上海书评》上刊登了一篇陶程凯先生关于冷哲先生对丹尼尔•金《大学潜规则》一书书评的评论《立场先行的偏颇》，其中观点多有笔者不敢苟同之处，特写此文表达个人对教育平等问题的看法。

         陶文整体基调在于指责《大学潜规则》一书是“用民粹语言包装的迎合美国百姓对精英教育的怀疑不满情绪”，冷哲先生则“不知为哪般”地无意义地“跟着起劲”。这里我不多点评民粹主义这类感情内容多分析内容少的无聊词汇，而是集中笔墨讨论一下陶先生文中一些具体的分析。

         陶先生认为“哈佛、耶鲁、斯坦福等许多名校都是私立学校，本来就靠捐款人供养，人家爱收谁当学生都可以。”在一个尊重市场逻辑的国度，用收益回报投资者的付出本来就是应有之义，但这种回报不能够影响公民的基本权利，不能影响社会的起点公平。就像一个富人如果开了一家私立医院，他可以指望医院收入上的回报，但他绝对无权指示医院不治疗某个他的仇人。泛泛地用“私立”推出无条件的“权利”无疑是太过简单了。

         陶先生认为“常春藤诸校所提倡的公平，是体现在分配上的。”收一个能力不足的富家子弟也许可以使学校富有余力地资助大量的寒门学子。这是典型的短视的功利主义逻辑。试想这样一个例子，一个寒门女大学生被一个富二代侵犯，该富二代向学校和该女生交涉说，如果包庇他的罪行，那么他不光会付该女大学生不少补偿金，还将捐献一大笔钱给学校设立一个安保资金，从而用一个女大学生的牺牲换来对许许多多大学学子的保护。试问我们应该允许这样的事发生么？金钱上的补偿可以使对他人基本权利的侵犯变得正义么？显然不行。无论短期功利主义的逻辑多么诱人，我们也不会想要成为一个被侵犯权利的女大学生，因而我们也不应容忍金钱力量凌驾于个人基本权利之上。

         写到这里，读者诸君会发现我的一个隐含的假定，就是平等接受教育的权利是可以和一些重要人身权利相比拟的权利。这里容我多说两句，能不能接受高等教育，关乎一个公民（或许尤其是贫穷阶层的公民）的人生观、价值观、必要的工作能力乃至一生幸福，从这个角度说，平等接受教育的权利重要性绝不下于其它一些人身基本权利。在一个相对公平的社会，教育这一重要资源应该对所有公民公平开放，在供不应求时，其应该奖励后天的勤奋而非先天的身份，奖励后天的选择而非先天的环境。

         陶先生还说“即便采用丹尼尔•金理想中一视同仁的择优录取，我敢打赌，中上阶层的数目也一定会力压无产无业阶层。”所以丹尼尔•金这本书实际上是“给自己打了个死结”。这更是不成逻辑的逻辑。犯罪无法彻底消灭不等于我们可以不打击犯罪，绝对真理不能达到推不出我们不应追求真理。正是在努力追求完美的过程中，我们可以一步步趋近完美。取消金钱招生特权当然不能使大学招生变得绝对公平，但这是使大学招生趋近于公平的首要的和重要的一步！况且，我们也没有理由认为取消金钱招生特权外我们无法做的更多，提高教育补助、公立中初等教育教师分配平均化，可以探讨的其他措施实在太多了。

         陶先生大概会认为我太过理想主义。他说综合类大学需要大量捐款“开设华而不实的课程”，仿佛让子女利用特权上大学是捐款的唯一动机一样。大学的烙印会伴随它的学子一生一世，没有一个人会不希望自己的母校变好，怀念青春、喜欢某门学科、希望在校园内写上自己的名字，给大学捐款的原因多种多样，大学也可以提供从冠名讲席、建筑，大学资源优先使用权，到请捐款者加入学校理事会参与决策等种种回报反馈校友（甚至国家也可以通过减税等一些方法激励捐款人），但原则依然是，损害学子基本权利的回报措施不在此列！再者，在目前的条件下可能一校不接受特权，捐款就会流入他校，可如果通过严格把控使得每一个学校都杜绝这种特权，那么排除特权对每一个学校的影响也会变小。总之，没有理由认为排除了特权，大学一切非实用科目就都办不下去（何况一些非实用性基础学科也能拿到大量国家补助、科研经费）。

         最后，我自作主张，替冷哲先生说几句关于该书对我国的现实意义，澄清一下冷先生的书评绝不是瞎起劲。这本书说的虽然是美国，但其中的思考其实对我国的情况极富警示作用，一方面我国高等教育各个方面都在不断进行改革，而另一方面不少国人既染上了书中所说“向金钱看”的毛病，还有“向权力看”、“向人情看”的痼疾。出版、宣传这本书可以让更多国人思考、关注、呼吁教育平等，形成一个良好的舆论氛围，推动各方面在改革中更加注重教育公平，从这个方面说，此时出版此书“善莫大焉”。