We're blowing this up to poster size and tacking it to our dorm-room ceiling, so it's the last thing we see each night and the first thing each morning.

"The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates," by Dan Golden [Amazon] 

EARLIER: Could It Possibly Be True? Wealthy Kids Get P...P...Preference in Admissions?

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but says:

you don't live in dorm rooms. you're old fogies posing as college students.

IvyGate says:

Relatively young fogies, actually. Can't we get away with a little poetic license?

steveholt! says:

Dan Golden's handwriting is worse than an Ivy Leaguer on a 3-day adderal binge.

Crimsonite says:

yeah, cut that "dorm room" nonesense. you may still sleep in a bunk bed, but it ain't no dorm.

DJ says:

Kind of like my Don Johnson poster.

why says:

Why are your identities secret? Why don't you tell everyone who's running IvyGate? I don't get it.

IvyGate says:

Laziness.

IvyGate says:

Hi there -- To whoever just posted our names, we appreciate your kindness, but we're keeping this on the down low for now. Who we are is common knowledge at most campuses, but there's no need to broadcast it. Anybody curious can email us at ivygate@gmail.com.

Dan Golden says:

is a douchebag! if you've had any personal contact with him, I'm sure you'd agree

KC says:

heres a question...Who cares who they are?What i wanna know is how smart can you be using a word like,"Douchebag"?

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