Another great article by Frank Bruni on the craziness of college admissions, specifically, early decision.
But what worries me more is how the early-application process intensifies much of what’s perverse about college admissions today: the anxiety-fueling, disappointment-seeding sense that one school above all others glimmers in the distance as the perfect prize; the assessment of the most exclusive environments as, ipso facto, the superior ones.
That’s hooey, but it’s stubborn hooey, as the early-application vogue demonstrates.
Worth a read here!
