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Stars and Strife A clash of cultures at Boston's City Hall in 1976 symbolized the city's years-long confrontation with the busing of schoolchildren * By Celia Wren * Smithsonian magazine, April 2006 The incident on Boston’s City Hall Plaza took no more than 15 seconds, Ted Landsmark recalls. He was set upon and punched; someone swung an American flag at him; his attackers fled; he glanced down at his suit. “I realized I was covered with blood, and at that moment I understood that something quite significant had happened.” What had happened was partly an accident of timing—a collision between »

I applied to college one evening, after dinner, in the fall of my senior year in high school. College applicants in Ontario, in those days, were given a single sheet of paper which listed all the universities in the province. It was my job to rank them in order of preference. Then I had to mail the sheet of paper to a central college-admissions office. The whole process probably took ten minutes. My school sent in my grades separately. I vaguely remember filling out a supplementary two-page form listing my interests and activities. There were no S.A.T. scores to »

The Chosen A new book tackles the history of admissions and opportunity in the Ivy League In a massive book published late last year, Berkeley sociologist Jerome Karabel takes on the touchy subject of admissions at Americas most elite universities. The heart of Karabels story in The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton begins in the gentlemanly 1920s, after the universities had begun to raise admission standards. The problem was the result of this meritocracy: a growing number of high-scoring Jewish applicants. Elite universities feared that they would face the same fate as »

Malcolm Gladwell, "GETTING IN: The social logic of Ivy League admissions," New Yorker (October 10, 2005) I applied to college one evening, after dinner in the fall of my senior year in high school College applicants in Ontario, in those days were given a single sheet of paper which liste all the universities in the province. It was m job to rank them in order of preference. Then had to mail the sheet of paper to a centra college-admissions office. The whole proces probably took ten minutes. My school sent i my grades separately. I vaguely remembe filling out a »

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