September 26, 2008
How College Admissions Came to Be Hawked in the Marketplace
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.
The French novelist and editor Jean-Baptiste-Alphonse Karr penned that famous aphorism ("the more things change, the more they stay the same") in 1849, purportedly as a comment on the legacy of the French Revolution. But the sort of paradox to which he alludes is also applicable to the current state of college admissions in America.
The first edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges was published in 1982, at a time when the
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