Funny letter to the New York Times
In response to this article a distressed father wrote:
To the Editor:
I have noticed several articles in The Times on how difficult it is to get into college. I assume that your goal in publishing them is to drive my daughter, a high school sophomore already worried about college admissions, over the edge.
You have succeeded. Now you can stop.
So true. The NYT is obsessed with two things: college admissions and women's careers. Just look at their archives: every month it seems they have an article about either the difficulty of college admissions or the role of women in the workplace, their willingness to have a career and a family, etc. etc. Of course enlightening and interesting series like the one on mental illness in children are abandoned after two or three articles.
I stopped caring about college admissions and rankings as soon as my acceptance letter arrived in the mail, and I barely cared before that. Even after studies show that income is not dependent on the college one attended (based on the incomes of adults who were accepted to prestigious universities but chose to go to a lesser-known one) people are still obsessing over college. It's possible that people are aware of this but still strive for big-name colleges out of a desire for enlightenment and academic soul-searching, but I don't think of humanity that highly. People just don't care what qualified people tell them.
To the Editor:
I have noticed several articles in The Times on how difficult it is to get into college. I assume that your goal in publishing them is to drive my daughter, a high school sophomore already worried about college admissions, over the edge.
You have succeeded. Now you can stop.
So true. The NYT is obsessed with two things: college admissions and women's careers. Just look at their archives: every month it seems they have an article about either the difficulty of college admissions or the role of women in the workplace, their willingness to have a career and a family, etc. etc. Of course enlightening and interesting series like the one on mental illness in children are abandoned after two or three articles.
I stopped caring about college admissions and rankings as soon as my acceptance letter arrived in the mail, and I barely cared before that. Even after studies show that income is not dependent on the college one attended (based on the incomes of adults who were accepted to prestigious universities but chose to go to a lesser-known one) people are still obsessing over college. It's possible that people are aware of this but still strive for big-name colleges out of a desire for enlightenment and academic soul-searching, but I don't think of humanity that highly. People just don't care what qualified people tell them.