David French’s article on the way admissions committees really operate is not to be missed. David served on the admissions committee at Cornell Law School for a year and got to see the process from the inside. It isn’t just driven by race, he shows, but also by ideology. At Cornell, there was a strong bias in favor of students who didn’t just have the preferred ancestry, but also seemed to have the kinds of “progressive” motives that turns leftists all gooey inside.

Now that the word is out, few applicants will admit that they aspire to careers that pay well. That’s the way to get your application tossed. Instead, say that you want to do work for migrant farm workers or Pandas. Couldn’t hurt to put down that you’re part Cherokee or something either.