Mapping the College Culture Gap
11th March 2012
When Britain still had an Empire, what mattered most was to get your daughters married and your sons into a good regiment. In Homeland America, all that matters to middle-class and affluent parents is getting their children into the best colleges that money can buy or that the Standardized Aptitude Test will allow.
Not that it will do them much good nowadays. The best way to make it into Harvard is to be black (you don’t have to actually look black, however, as long as you’re at least as black as Barack Obama or Eric Holder or Colin Powell) with an Hispanic surname.