America’s elite universities, envied by the world, as US institutions have the five largest endowments, hold 8 of the top 10 positions in the world and help keep the rich richer – making it harder than ever to fight the inequality dividing us today and dominate several subject listing put out by Shanghai Ranking. Poison Ivy reveals the bigger, seedier story of how elite colleges create paths to admission available only to the wealthy, despite rhetoric to the contrary, and also shows light on how tacit agreements between exclusive “Ivy-plus” schools and white affluent suburbs create widespread de facto segregation. … Continue reading Elite Class discriminations