Scott Greer reviews Jerome Karabel’s The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton and how it documents the old WASP elite’s culture, how the Ivy League created modern admission standards to keep their institutions WASP-y, how the principles of meritocracy were used to upend this dynamic, and how the Ivy Leagu…
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