Michael Wolff is Rich, Clawed His Kid’s Way Into Fancy Schools 36648

Daniel Golden’s new book, The Price of Admission, has already been widely discussed in the media — especially among gossips.

Golden spends 323 pages discussing how much the East Coast elite are willing to dish over or donate so their kids to make it into Harvard, Yale, or Princeton, with the most notable among his examples being New York Observer owner Jared Kushner.

And in yesterday’s Times Vanity Fair writer Michael Wolff takes on the pages, interpreting the story as one of the regular folks. Sure, Wolff’s kids go to “fancy schools” but that’s because he bought them S.A.T tutors, not a new wing for the library. While Wolff is not one of the parents who bought his kid’s into school, per se, he does think the fact that Golden wants “some people ??? people like himself ??? to have access to elite universities” to be ridiculous. Of course we also have to hear how Wolff could’ve written this book with more insight and depth than Golden did.

But he???s immune to the greater comedy of manners and so misses a potentially more profound story: the joke may be on us ??? not just on the rich, but on everybody who???s clawed his way and his kid???s way into big-brand colleges.

“Us?” Well, obviously he doesn’t mean us. He means, like, him his fellow VF editors and a few families that have lived on the Upper West Side since 1920.

Show Them the Money [Michael Wolff, New York Times]