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 March 5, 2000 
 
 
   
  November 9, 2007
 
 "College Admissions as Conspiracy Theory" 
BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS 
ESSAY Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are 
Winning the War Over College Affirmative Action by Peter Schmidt (Palgrave 
MacMillan, 2007) The Conditions for Admission: Access, Equity, 
and the Social Contract of Public Universities by John Aubrey Douglass 
(Stanford University Press, 2007) The Power of Privilege: Yale and America's 
Elite Colleges by Joseph A. Soares (Stanford University Press, 2007) Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class 
Divide in American Education By Peter Sacks (University of California Press, 
2007) 
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