Low-income students told by Princeton University to attend $52,000-a-year prep school.

Listen up, poor kids: This is as close as you'll get to Princeton probably.

Always having their fingers on the pulse of how the other half lives, Princeton University counselors have advised students--including those of low-income and financially strapped backgrounds--to attend Lawrenceville Prep, The Peddie School of New Jersey, and other prep schools to learn the "academic rigors" of the Ivy League staple before applying again (with no guarantee of admittance!). The guess is that Princeton assumes these students can also learn the economic rigors of being homeless soon, too.

Lawrenceville charges a $52,000-a-year tuition, all with little financial aid. BUT Lawrenceville boasts a nine hole golf course and a $380 million endowment, so that seems fair.

Princeton spokesperson Daniel Day told The Tab, "We recognize that some students might benefit from a post-graduate year of study after their high school graduation to help them strengthen their academic foundation." And that foundation of knowledge is seemingly built on wondering how you'll feed yourself while broke.

"Ultimately it is up to the student whether or not to complete a post-graduate year at any school," he added.

Ultimately the average and lower income family recognize that some schools, like Princeton, might benefit from learning that not everyone lives in a bubble of Xanadu-like wealth.

$1.2 million house for sale for the cost of a 300 word essay and $285 entrance fee.

Do you love Mickey Mouse enough that you want him to be your neighbor? Do you feel like you need more Donald Duck in your life? Good news then! Dreams really can come true! Mickey hasn't been lying to us all these years!

Celebration, Florida, is a planned community that originally was the lovechild idea of the Walt Disney Corporation in the 1990s. Most of the town straddles Interstate 4, connected directly to Disney World via a street called World Drive, and tries to be an idealized version of what an American neighborhood should look like. Some have described it as a wannabe Utopia or Xanadu. Some have described is as straight out of The Stepford Wives.

Now, a $1.2 million home located in Celebration can be yours for a crafty essay under 300 words and a $285 entrance fee.

Says Mark Rutecki, the administrator of the sale:

"How often do you get a chance to buy a beautiful Celebration Florida home for only $285 and a few well-chosen words? This is one of those opportunities that rarely knocks, so fire up your imagination."

Well, Mark, I imagine there's a comma between Celebration and Florida (c'mon, man), but I digress. This opportunity actually does knock occasionally, more than Mark might admit. Just recently, a bed and breakfast in Maine was sold using the same method, albeit for a cheaper entrance fee of $125 and the burden of knowing you'd have to live in Maine.

The Celebration home has five bedrooms, five full bathrooms and two half bathrooms (so you're never more than 10ft away from relief!) spread out over 6,700sq. ft.

Celebration no longer has any official relationship with the Walt Disney Corporation, as Mickey and friends divested nearly all their controlling interest in the planned community.

But that doesn't mean you can't be BFFs with Mickey. He's just down the road after all.

Famous Writers Arrested: James Frey

Much like the Famous Writers Shirtless posts, here we'll occasionally dive into mugshots of the criminally-inclined writers who found themselves in the big house.

Mugshots? Yes, please.

Today:  James Frey

James Frey loved living in the wonderful world of Xanadu when he made up a wannabe life in his 'memoir' A Million Little Pieces.

What's not Xanadu? Sitting in the cooler while the po-po takes pictures of your mug for drunk driving. James Frey was popped back in 1988 for hitting the sauce and weaving in traffic.

Was Frey attacked with a shrimp fork? No. That'd be the chickenpox, which the local sheriff's office wanted nothing to do with when they released him on bond and asked he vacate their facility.

Chickenpox! A boozer's best friend!

Imagine Edward Cullen. Now imagine Edward Cullen as a black man.

Can't do it, can you? Not because you lack imagination--but it's hard to imagine something you've probably never seen. And studies now show you've probably never seen a black character on the cover of a young adult novel. (Please, dear God, I'm not considering Twilight anything else other than a YA book. Let's not debate this.)

Last year, blogger Kate Hart created a sort of color wheel--in the literal sense--about the colors of young adult book covers. But when she dived deeper she looked into the racial color representation of the book covers...and the only thing rarer than vampires are black people.

According to Hart, a study of YA book covers from 2011 show that 1.2% of all book covers show a black person--and often that black person is situated behind a white person or has skin light enough to compete with Mariah Carey. Overall, 10% of book covers show an "ambiguous" racial character on the cover--generally tan-ish in the vein of "Is that dude Greek, Brazilian, or Chinese?"

But are you black? The book publishing industry would like you to know disabled people are less represented than you are, to the extent of.................zero percent. That's right, folks--disabilities don't exist in the land of young adult fiction. It's a wonderful land of Xanadu! Young adult book covers are like a Benny Hinn revival healing. We're all healed!!

Healed, except for that whole racial and disability bias we have going on.



Oh, by the way---that cover of "Head Games" up above? That qualifies as a black character on the cover of a young adult novel. Where is that black man, you say? He's one of the faint, distant, tiny characters playing basketball in the background. Powerful, in-your-face representation of black America if I've ever seen it.