September 28, 2007

How Applying to College Shapes Students

By ERIC HOOVER

Study finds 'formative experience,' frustration, for brightest applicants

Rachel Weisel learned a lot when she applied to college. The admissions process taught her how to express herself during interviews, how to describe her best qualities in application essays.

But she also learned how it feels to stare at the ceiling: Many nights during her senior year of high school, she would lie awake, thinking about which college she should choose. "It was always lurking in the back of

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