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For Sale: My Seat in Class

Wharton's auction system among solutions to overenrollment in popular courses

By Ambreen Ali,  Newser User

Posted Feb 15, 2008 4:53 PM CST

(Newser) – It beats sleeping overnight outside a professor's office—as some do at Stanford—but should students buy their way into popular classes? The University of Chicago thought not, removing one student's ad hawking a slot in Freakonomics author Steven Levitt's course. Penn's Wharton School has...   Read full story »

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