While not directly related to class (as in AmCon) this piece by Malcolm Gladwell was an interesting read on admissions at Ivy League colleges and is related to class (as in social class) as well as ethnicity. I read it during work last night. It was an interesting situation because I was reading about alumni relations and why legacy students have so much higher of an admission rate at schools like Harvard (and maybe here? I couldn't tell you, but there are a lot at Olaf too) and how schools essentially create a elite brand for themselves all while calling Olaf alumni and asking for gifts to the school.

This of course reminds me of what Conan said about the alumni association in his Class Day speech to a Harvard graduating class several years after his own graduation:

These people just raised $2.5 billion and they only got through the Bs in the alumni directory. Here’s basically how it works. Your phone rings, usually after a big meal when you’re tired and most vulnerable, and a voice asks you for money. Knowing—you’ve read in the paper—that they just raised $2.5 billion, you ask, “What do you need it for?” There is a long pause, and the voice on the other end of the line says, “We don’t need it, we just want it.”

Anyways, here's the Gladwell piece: http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/10/10/051010crat_atlarge
Here's a transcript of Conan's speech: http://www.allowe.com/Humor/book/COBspeech2k.htm

And here are videos of it:

It's awesome, and well worth the 20 minutes.