“… The special treatment that children of big donors can get in college admissions adds to the many advantages they already enjoy over low-income students … The advantages enjoyed by the affluent contribute to an astounding imbalance among income groups in the enrollment at America’s top colleges and universities … This disgraceful imbalance shows that the working class is already history at the top schools, the middle class is being squeezed out and the wealthy are dominating. It makes a mockery of the claim by elite colleges to be engines of social mobility for those with the greatest abilities.” …