the Sam Jackson College Experience

[14:13:57] me: i'm so pissed i'm going to have to pay CB another 9.50 on thurs to send off my new scores [14:14:09] Ned Bennett: I KNOW [14:14:13] Ned Bennett: STUPID [14:14:18] me: stupid or CAREFULLY PLANNED? [14:14:25] me: i.e. BRILLIANTLY EXPLOITATIVE [14:14:28] Ned Bennett: hahaha [14:14:31] Ned Bennett: obnoxious Hooray for College Board. I'll [...]

Today the entire senior class spent faculty meeting (a free block for students this morning) performing 'mock admissions' with their counselor groups. We had three former Exonians' common applications in front of us and were given an academic profile for a school--we were to serve as individual readers. We had 10 minutes for the first [...]

A week ago I railed against early cum laude, the practice at Exeter where the top 5% of the senior class is recognized early in the year. However, it turns out that that 95% is more directly ranked than I had at first thought. Our dutiful friend Ryan Caro has once again enlightened me--this time, [...]

Christopher Murphy, associate director of undergraduate admissions at Yale University, stopped by to talk to us this past Tuesday evening. I was initially very concerned by the fact that the session was scheduled for the assembly hall, thinking that this choice of venue must have meant that the Yale applicant pool was approximately the entire [...]

All day today I was struck by how the entire senior class seemed to be wasting away intellectually, crushed beneath the mental burden of college applications with ED / EA deadlines looming and the SAT so recently behind us. I described myself as "on edge" this morning, after my math test; several of my friends [...]