Planet Mom | Planet Mom: It's where I live…at the corner of irreverence and oversharing.
Planet Mom | Planet Mom: It's where I live…at the corner of irreverence and oversharing.
Description: Lessons from my research on kids, health, education, parenting, and more.
I read a well-written book on the present, crazy state of competitive college admissions, called “Who Gets In and Why,” by Jeffery Selingo . There’s been constant media coverage over the years about how the college admissions process and final decisions seem stressful, overwhelming, and arbitrary and the book definitely brings some insight into this. See below for my list of takeaways from the book.
College admissions appears to have become a huge, imperfect, delicate matching monstrosity. On the one hand, colleges struggle to find students to meet various institutional needs (i.e. athletics, diversity of gender, race, socioeconomic background, legacy, finances, academics, etc.) And even if the perfect balance of students to meet these needs are admitted , the actual yield (the number of accepted students who actually enroll) is another step that may throw everything off balance.
On the other hand, students, in an unbelievably competitive environment, have to identify and apply to colleges where they will find the best financial, academic, and social fit. . . and be lucky enough to apply to schools that just happen to be needing students like them.
Planet Mom | Planet Mom: It's where I live…at the corner of irreverence and oversharing.
Planet Mom | Planet Mom: It's where I live…at the corner of irreverence and oversharing.