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Celia Wren, "Stars and Strife," Smithsonian Magazine (April 2006)

Stars and Strife A clash of cultures at Boston's City Hall in 1976 symbolized the city's years-long confrontation with the busing of schoolchildren * By Celia Wren * Smithsonian magazine, April 2006 The incident on Boston’s City Hall Plaza took no more than 15 seconds, Ted Landsmark recalls. He was set upon and punched; someone swung an American flag at him; his attackers fled; he glanced down at his suit. “I realized I was covered with blood, and at that moment I understood that something quite significant had happened.” What had happened was partly an accident of timing—a collision between »

Malcolm Gladwell, "Getting In: The Social Logic of Ivy League Admissions," The New Yorker (October 10, 2005)

I applied to college one evening, after dinner, in the fall of my senior year in high school. College applicants in Ontario, in those days, were given a single sheet of paper which listed all the universities in the province. It was my job to rank them in order of preference. Then I had to mail the sheet of paper to a central college-admissions office. The whole process probably took ten minutes. My school sent in my grades separately. I vaguely remember filling out a supplementary two-page form listing my interests and activities. There were no S.A.T. scores to »

Jerome Karabel, "Princeton: Wealth, Image, and the Battle for Institutional Mobility," excerpt from The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton (2005)

The Chosen A new book tackles the history of admissions and opportunity in the Ivy League In a massive book published late last year, Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel takes on the touchy subject of admissions at America�s most elite universities. The heart of Karabel�s story in �The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton� begins in the gentlemanly 1920s, after the universities had begun to raise admission standards. The problem was the result of this meritocracy: a growing number of high-scoring Jewish applicants. Elite universities feared that they would face the same fate as »

Malcolm Gladwell, "Getting In: The Social Logic of Ivy League Admissions," The New Yorker (October 10, 2005)

Malcolm Gladwell, "GETTING IN: The social logic of Ivy League admissions," New Yorker (October 10, 2005) I applied to college one evening, after dinner in the fall of my senior year in high school College applicants in Ontario, in those days were given a single sheet of paper which liste all the universities in the province. It was m job to rank them in order of preference. Then had to mail the sheet of paper to a centra college-admissions office. The whole proces probably took ten minutes. My school sent i my grades separately. I vaguely remembe filling out a »

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