What College Admissions Miss
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In October 2008, I sat on a plane at the New Haven airport. It was parent’s weekend so I was surrounded by proud parents fresh from visiting their above-average offspring — all first-years at Yale. You’d think this would be cause for unalloyed joy. But for some, joy was tinged with disappointment.
“My son really wanted to go to Harvard. But he didn’t get in.”
What to say to this decidedly ivy-covered lament? I riffed, “Oh, someday he’ll be a Harvard professor.” Then, I added seriously, “if he re
“My son really wanted to go to Harvard. But he didn’t get in.”
What to say to this decidedly ivy-covered lament? I riffed, “Oh, someday he’ll be a Harvard professor.” Then, I added seriously, “if he re
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