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How Applying to College Shapes Students

Dennis G. Jerz / 24 Sep 2007

For me, this was the money quote in this Chronicle article about a study on the college admissions process:

I have never wanted anything in my life as badly as I wanted to get into that college. … That is not how it should be.”

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