In an ideal world, the nation’s elite schools would enroll the most qualified students. But that’s not how it (1)Applicants whose parents are alums get special treatment, as (2) athletes and rich kids. Underrepresented minorities are also given (3) Thirty years of affirmative action have changed the character of (4) white universities; now about 13 percent of all undergraduates are black or Latino. (5) a recent study by the Century Foundation found that at the nation’s 146 most (6) schools, 74 percent of students came from upper middle-class and wealthy families, while only about 5 percent came from families with an annual income of (7) $ 35,000 or less.
Many schools say diversity—racial, economic and geographic— is (8) to maintaining intellectually (9) campuses. But Richard Kahlenberg of the Century Foundation says that even though colleges (10) they want poor kids, "
A. do
B. are
C. will
D. be
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