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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My school, Phillips Exeter Academy, doesn’t report rank. I think this is a great thing–rank is an evil construct which only serves US News & World Report. Rank does not tell the true story of a person. It also leads to protracted legal battles over decimal points.
Yet there is an exception–one disgusting exception. PEA doles [...]

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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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