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How to get into college

From The Chronicle, many of our best and brightest high-school students found out last month whether they had been accepted by early decision to the colleges of their choice — but most of those decisions were more or less preordained by social class. Getting in gets harder: The children of the baby boomers are flooding colleges with applications, making the process more competitive than ever. How to get into college despite the disadvantage of privilege: A review of Acing the College Application by Michelle Hernandez and What High Schools Don't Tell You by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross. Defining diversity down: A proposal to make it easier to get into California colleges.