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[quote=Anonymous]If you didn't see it, Frank Bruni had an interesting piece about college admissions in the NYT this weekend: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/15/opinion/sunday/frank-bruni-how-to-survive-the-college-admissions-madness.html?_r=0 He talks about kids taking different paths (Yale vs. Indiana University) and still ending up with the same consulting firm after college. (Indiana student later went to Harvard Business School.) "But for too many parents and their children, acceptance by an elite institution isn’t just another challenge, just another goal. A yes or no from Amherst or the University of Virginia or the University of Chicago is seen as the conclusive measure of a young person’s worth, an uncontestable harbinger of the accomplishments or disappointments to come. Winner or loser: This is when the judgment is made. This is the great, brutal culling. Continue reading the main story What madness. And what nonsense."[/quote]
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