Class Warfare - Class Warfare - Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools - Grand Format

Stories abound about the lengths to which some parents will go to ensure a spot for their child at a prestigious university. From the Suzuki method to calculus-based physics, from AP tests to early-learning Kumon courses, some students are increasingly pushed to excel, with that Harvard, Yale, or Princeton acceptance letter held tantalizingly in front of them. Nowhere is this drive more apparent than in our elite secondary schools.
In Class Warfare, Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone, and Heather Jenkins go inside the ivy-yearning halls of three such schools to offer a day-by-day, week-by-week look at this remarkable drive toward college admissions and one of its most salient purposes : to determine class.