The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates Cover
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The Price of Admission How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates

Daniel Golden

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—child...

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This book was cited as the source for the claim that Jared Kushner received preferential admission to Harvard following a large donation from his father, Charles Kushner.

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He wrote a book back in 2006 called The Price of Admission.

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Episode: The Epstein Files: The Midas Touch | Ep 1

This book was cited as the source for the claim that Jared Kushner received preferential admission to Harvard following a large donation from his father, Charles Kushner.

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He wrote a book back in 2006 called The Price of Admission.

He was investigating at that time, again, not related to politics left or right. He just thought it was interesting that there were so many of these people going to Harvard that were underqualified.

And according to him and his research, he writes, quote, New Jersey real estate developer Charles Kushner. That's Jared's father. We're going to talk about him in a second. Had pledged $2.5 million to Harvard University in 1998 before, not long before, his son Jared was admitted to the prestigious Ivy League school.

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