January 11, 2008

An Admissions Race That's Already Won

By MITCHELL L. STEVENS

Last month thousands of our best and brightest high-school students found out whether they had been accepted by early decision to the colleges of their choice. Each had spent weeks poring over application forms, polishing essays, and agonizing over where to submit an application — a promise to matriculate at one institution, forsaking all others, in exchange for often considerably better odds of admission and a couple fewer months of worry about where they would spend their college

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