The Wall Street Journal story on the "sale" of undergraduate admissions by elite universities is a bit like a late-breaking expose with the headline: "The world is not flat." Why the WSJ picked on Duke is not clear as the Ivys would also have been good candidates. Consider the case of a hard-partying preppie with a mediocre academic record, and even worse SATs, who got into Yale University because daddy was rich and famous. After a lackluster record at Yale, and clever maneuvers to avoid military service in Vietnam, he was admitted to the Harvard Business School. Would daddy's wealth and fame have had anything to do with George W. Bush's admission to these elite universities?
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