The Need-Blind Admissions Lie Exposed

As our loyal readers may know, we were recently very impressed with an article penned by Paul Tough in The New York Times Magazine. The piece, entitled “What College Admissions Offices Really Want,” has our early vote for the most insightful and well written piece about college admissions of the … 

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Need Aware in Admissions

Highly selective colleges are need aware in admissions. They’re not need blind. A gentleman by the name of Allan Houston wrote into our blog about the Ivy League colleges that we don’t believe do right by veterans. Mr. Houston wrote, “As a veteran, all I expected or wanted was to be … 

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