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College in the Time of Crazy
It’s hard to break a habit.
Mine is reading the news. You can take the boy out of Newhouse - but you can’t take the Newhouse out of the boy.
For most of my life, I have started my day with a meticulous review of the headlines in the New York Times. But in the last few years, the shape of this habit has changed as the world, too, has changed.
This December, Take a Pass on Recruit-to-Deny Admissions
A few years ago, still panting from her modern dance class, a student burst into my office on Cyber Monday to tell me about a “bizarre” email she had just received from a college.
No names. But it was an Ivy with a microscopic acceptance rate.