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Read "The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates", by Daniel Golden.

He names names and cites figures. 
For an Ivy League education, an alumn can expect to endow $1M to guarantee admission of his or her kids. Money is the bottom line. Alumn children without endowment are not interesting. Development cases are non-alumn kids whose parents makes similar donations. Then there are student athletes. Since most of these hooks are white (even in the athlete category!) and have at least triple the rate of admission compared to an unhooked applicant, it makes sense to conclude that affirmative action is still necessary at the college level to counteract the effect of white privilege. Note that the best-ranked schools have long had an anti-Asian bias too.

Take-away: for your typical unhooked student, the actual rate of admission is significantly lower than the published numbers show. At some top universities, it can be cut in half.

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