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Educating for Solitude: A Conversation with William Deresiewicz

New Books in Higher Education

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The Underbelly of Elite Schools

I think it's kind of the underbelly that people don't like to talk about people at elite schools. Everyone knows that there's a very high percentage of rich people at these places. But certainly the administration downplays it as much as possible and pretends to be completely representative. We have like at least one kid from each of the 50 states, you know, instead of talking about which kid did you pick? That's right. It's just again just to be really clear, it's not just that so many of the kids are rich, although they are.

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