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Exclusion U
EXCLUSION U is a feature documentary that pulls back the ivy curtain to reveal the shocking scandal of how Ivy League admissions really work. The real scandal isn’t a few students bribing their way to a spot, but how the entire system is designed to keep rich kids in and poor kids out, all while being subsidized by you, the taxpayer.
As the wealth of these elite institutions grow by the billions per year, enrollments stagnate and tuition soars. Interviews with low income students, deans of admissions and shocking financial investigations force the question: why do we continue to invest so much in institutions that invest so little back in us?
Featured Experts:
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
MacArthur Fellow and author of “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges”
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Davarian Baldwin
Author of “In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering Our Cities”
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Anthony Abraham Jack
Author of “The Privileged Poor” about poor students at Harvard working as janitors.
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Adam Andrzejewski
Founder and CEO, OpenTheBooks.com which studied how Ivy League Universities receive government subsidies while their endowments grow at record rates due to enjoying tax free status.
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Jeff Selingo
For 16 years was Editor at Large Chronicle of Higher Education author of two New York Times bestsellers, including “Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions.”
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Lauren Rivera
Author of "Pedigree: How Elite Students Get Elite Jobs"
Lauren Rivera winner of the Max Weber Book Prize
EXCLUSION U challenges the notion that these are “private schools” as they receive subsidies at a higher rate than state schools that educate needier students. Why aren’t the Ivies expanding opportunities by creating more seats in their classrooms and building pipelines for low income students?
The film ends with a call to action as other universities, public and private, show the ivies how they can be elite without being elitist. EXCLUSION U is a wake up call for any student who dreams of attending an Ivy and for anyone who cares about our democracy.
The film is a project of Cora Media and directed by acclaimed activist documentary director Ginger Gentile (IMdB).
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