The world is full of powerful and successful people whom are mostly the cause of every movement that goes around the globe. We are either fighting to be like them or against them. In the article The Chosen Ones, Peter Cookson and Caroline Hodges explore different aspects elite schools follow to create the best student body possible as they seek to educate the future successful and powerful generation. Considering the reputation of theses institutions, it is evident that the acceptance process is quite rigorous and therefore only few have the privilege to attend. As the authors say, “If people can be known by the company they keep, cannot schools be known by the students they admit?”. Furthermore, the article discusses some of the requisites of the schools, and studies how the background of students affects or helps their chances to be the chosen ones. Some of the points considered were the wealth of their families, their parents’ education and professions, their geographical origins and family structure. I find it reasonable that those with a higher income in their family were a greater percentage than the ones with an average income. In fact, the families with higher income were also the most educated and with better jobs than the rest. …show more content…
In essence, there is a circle of individuals with money and powerful position in the social scheme and inside that circle is where the searching for diversity is taking place. And lets not forget about the school appearance to maintain, their students need to meet up to certain standards physically too. “It is not by chance that most prep school students have shinny, well-combed hair, are trim, healthy and at least reasonable