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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Columbia University, you may remember, was at the September 26th mini college fair we had here at Exeter. Joanna B. May visited us and had many of those very nice Blue Albums and Blue Books to hand out, not to mention lots of discussion to offer. As with so many well-known schools at these fairs, [...]

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This information session was last Tuesday, September 26th.
Ted O’ Neill, director of admissions for the University of Chicago, came last Tuesday to do interviews (mainly for anyone applying early); that evening, he stayed around to give us a little bit of information about U of Chicago and to answer any questions we had about the [...]

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Sally Champagne of Harvard and Martin Walsh of Stanford were here this evening telling us about their respective institutions and then taking questions (and asking a few). I counted 45 people at the technical start of the session, but something like another ten had stealthily joined us by the end. As with the University of [...]

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