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All posts tagged
college-admissions
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December 21, 2021Common App Essays by Shakespeare Characters
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July 12, 2021Allison, This Is Your Future College, and We’re Here to Ruin Your Life
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December 2, 2020“Home Away from Home Alone”: A College Admissions Essay by Kevin McCallister
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June 23, 2020In Retrospect, Wait-Listing You Was a Huge Mistake
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December 29, 2019A Statement from the University of Pennsylvania Regarding the College Admissions Bribery Scandal
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December 16, 2019I Am Lady Macbeth, and Your Facebook Post About Your Kid’s Early Acceptance to Harvard Really Pisses Me Off
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August 27, 2019This Is Your Last Fucking Chance to Show Interest In Attending Our University
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March 13, 2019In My Day, All It Took to Get into Yale Was Gumption, Hard Work, and Being a Direct Male-Line Descendent of William Howard Taft
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October 5, 2018We Are Building the Most Inclusive, Exclusive Colleges in America!
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May 13, 2016Hijabi in Plain Sight: When Hijabi is Accused of Playing the Hijabi Card
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November 13, 2018If People Talked to Other Professionals the Way They Talk to Teachers
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May 13, 2022Ten Possibilities the Applebee’s Waitress Considers Before It Occurs to Her the Women in Booth Fourteen Might Be a Couple with Two Children
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May 2, 2022Welcome to the Middle-Aged Restaurant. Please Stop Complaining
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May 2, 2016I Would Rather Do Anything Else Than Grade Your Final Papers
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