Kathleen Kingsbury covers education for The Daily Beast. She also contributes to Time magazine, where she has covered business, health and education since 2005.
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Faking their ethnicities, sending bribes, stalking admissions officers' parents-students are trying everything to get...
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Can spending $40,000 on a private college coach help your kid get into a dream school? The Daily Beast's Kathleen Kin...
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Doctoring tax returns, hiding money with Grandma, posing as a dead relative-some families will do almost anything to ...
The Decade's 15 Hottest Colleges
The past 10 years transformed the collegiate landscape, creating a whole new class of first-choice schools. Kathleen ...
