so where are you applying to college?

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Oops – I guess I committed a faux pas. I asked a friend’s son, a senior at a snoburban high school, where he applied to college for next fall. He looked stricken, but gave me the name of a prestigious university out west.

I knew that overachiever seniors, in the late winter – if they didn’t get in somewhere early decision – were fretting until those emails arrived from the Ivy League. But I didn’t really understand the pressure they are under until I read this blog exchange, from the kids’ perspective, entitled, “sometimes-i-just-want-to-slap-people.”

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