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Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor 

For all the kids who are applying to college…I think this is worth reading.  A comical, entertaining, and much needed perspective in the midst of all the anxious hand-wringing.  One choice quote:

Part of my problem in getting on board the college frenzy was that I genuinely believed that any one of the colleges on our approved list of a hundred or so was capable of providing students with a good, even a great, education. The funny thing about teenagers is that very often the best of them, the most interesting and curious, are rather lousy high school students. They have other things on their minds than geeking out every single point on the AP U.S. history exam. They are very often readers, and preparation for elite-college admission does not allow one to be a reader; it’s far too time consuming. These “lousy” students were often among my favorites, and I never feared that they were going to lose a chance at a great education because they didn’t have the stuff of an “elite” admission. They themselves were smart. They didn’t need some Ferrari of a college nudging them along the path to a great education; they were going to get one wherever they went.

(via givemesomethingtoread)

Source: The Atlantic

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    just forwarded this to my junior-in-high-school senior…
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    I don’t even know how much my thoughts have to do with the article itself so much as what I felt, reading about the...
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    “So, what we are left with is “the way the world really works.” Here’s the thinking: you go to Brown, wander through in...
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  10. thekeri reblogged this from baseln and added:
    Worth a read. It reminds me of the eleventy million questions I got each week which I was working for MIT Admissions.
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    For all the kids who are applying to college…I think this is worth reading. A comical, entertaining, and much needed...
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    Basically MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE
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