Thanks for responding to my post.
Ferguson wrote one good book, titled “Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College,” published by Simon & Schuster in 2011.
He does a decent job describing the gyrations parents and teens endure to get into a competitive university.
Giving away the ending, Ferguson’s boy went to the University of Virginia.
During the 15 years or so I lived in the Old Dominion, the conventional wisdom was that Virginia Tech was easy to get into but you had to work hard for that sheepskin. UVA was like a Southern Ivy — ever-so-selective but once you were in, you could skate.
What lunacy. Having to go through a protracted competition for the privilege of getting a “prestigious” institution to take your money.
A thousand years from now, historians are going to look back at today’s higher education with the same bewilderment as we consider the medieval Scholastic philosophers debating how many angels could dance on the head of a pin.
Actually, the Scholastics get a bad rap, but that’s another subject ...
Oddly enough my daughter was accepted at every university she applied to. I did nothing to help her save cough up money for tests and transcripts
Parents ought to let their little darlings figure it out themselves. It builds character