http://newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?030407crat_atlarge
On affirmative action, and college admissions policies: “… This means that colleges like Harvard and Yale can cherry-pick their classes. If Harvard needs an outside linebacker, it can probably choose between an All-Division player with 1450 combined S.A.T. scores and an All-State with 1350. Yale can choose between a legacy [the child of a graduate], a Latina, and a national-science-competition finalist, depending on which hole needs another pigeon, each applicant with two 800s on the S.A.T.s (a credential known as dialling toll-free).” (Harvard apparently rejects twenty-five per cent of its “toll free” candidates.)