Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans?
A lawsuit against Harvard forces students to choose sides.
A lawsuit against Harvard forces students to choose sides.
Jay Caspian Kang New York Times Magazine Aug 2019 45min Permalink
The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.
Caitlin Flanagan The Atantic Apr 2019 25min Permalink
No one knew how Suzanne Jovin ended up in a wealthy neighborhood away from Yale’s campus in New Haven, or why she was brutally stabbed on the sidewalk, apparently by someone she knew. The only suspect that police named was her thesis advisor.
Suzanna Andrews Vanity Fair Aug 1999 35min Permalink
Tony Ma will bet you as much as $600,000 to train your student for college acceptance. If the student gets into their top choice school, Ma takes the cash. Rejected? He gets nothing.
Peter Waldman Businessweek Sep 2014 15min Permalink
An overachiever on what he did and didn’t learn at Princeton.
Walter Kirn The Atlantic Jan 2005 35min Permalink
A Yale student on why nearly a quarter of her classmates will end up working for Wall Street.
Marina Keegan The Yale Daily News Sep 2011 15min Permalink
"I was a member of a fraternity that asked pledges, in order to become a brother, to: swim in a kiddie pool of vomit, urine, fecal matter, semen and rotten food products; eat omelets made of vomit; chug cups of vinegar, which in one case caused a pledge to vomit blood; drink beer poured down fellow pledges' ass cracks... among other abuses."
Janet Reitman Rolling Stone Mar 2012 35min Permalink
From the 1940s through the early 70s, incoming freshman at Harvard, Yale, Vassar, Wellesley, and several other top schools were photographed nude in the name of science–bogus science, as it turned out. Most of the photos were destroyed, but not all.
Part two of the history of the Educational Testing Service.
Nicholas Lemann The Atlantic Sep 1995 40min Permalink
The first article in a two-part history of the Educational Testing Service, the institution behind the SAT.
Nicholas Lemann The Atlantic Aug 1995 35min Permalink
Michael Lewis goes undercover at Columbia.
Michael Lewis The New Republic Apr 1993 10min Permalink
In 1920, Harvard University officials suspected that some students were gay. So they kicked them all out.
Benoit Denizet-Lewis The Good Men Project Jun 2010 10min Permalink