byGavin sized up the other parents packed into the high school’s auditorium. He could eliminate the Harvard graduates, whose kids already enjoyed legacy admissions. And the scholarship parents, who had sob stories to sell. And the parents whose athletic children had recruitment offers in hand. None of them needed the services of a wonderworking college admissions consultant.
His wife nudged him and jerked her chin at the panel of Ivy League admissions representatives at the front of the room. Gavin returned his attention to the speaker, who beamed at a PowerPoint slide about his university’s commitment to diversity in admissions. Gavin swiveled his head for another look at the decidedly homogenous crowd. The only African-American student in his son Cameron’s class had moved away two years
