Plutocrats and their kids in the Ivy League

See how the super-rich help their kids get into and prosper at Ivy League schools. This piece might be the best example  yet of how America is no longer the land of opportunity it was long touted to be but a self-perpetuating plutocracy, where overwhelmingly the most important thing you can do for success in life is to pick rich, powerful and, preferably, pushy parents. Harvard and Brown universities are  paradises for this sort of thing.

Another is Dartmouth College. Read this.

 

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