Welcome back to our second installment of our new series, College Essay Link Roundup! We had a great time reading up on the latest admissions and college essay news (with a glass of lemonade on our lounge chair, OBVS), and have lots to share with you.
Between our last Roundup and now, the internet exploded with commentary on William Deresiewicz’s piece in the New Republic, warning parents not to send their kids to Ivy League schools. Everyone from the New Yorker, to Salon, to the New Republic again had an opinion.
Clearly this is a topic that deserves a good, long exploration. Might we suggest that you talk amongst yourselves?
In other, less incendiary, news: