Daniel Golden is an American journalist, working as Deputy Bureau Chief at the Boston bureau of the Wall Street Journal. He received the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting in 2004 for a series of articles in the Wall Street Journal 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 [1]. He holds a B.A. from Harvard College 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.
