Daniel Golden is an American journalist

Journalist

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, working as an editor at large for Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P.

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 News. He was previously senior editor at Conde Nast

Condé Nast Publications

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's now-defunct Portfolio magazine.

As Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau of the Wall Street Journal he received the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting

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 in 2004 for a series of articles on admissions preferences in elite American universities, specifically relating to the enormous advantages enjoyed by more affluent white students. Golden is also a previous recipient of the 2003 George Polk Award for Educational Journalism.

He holds a B.A. from Harvard College

Harvard College

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He is the author of The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates.