Shots In The Dark
Wednesday, May 02, 2007
  The Admissions Backlash Continues
In the Times, Michael Winerip realizes that his kids aren't going to Harvard. Also, that life goes on.

I came to understand that my own focus on Harvard was a matter of not sophistication but narrowness. I grew up in an unworldly blue-collar environment. Getting perfect grades and attending an elite college was one of the few ways up I could see.

My four have been raised in an upper-middle-class world. They look around and see lots of avenues to success.


Story instantly becomes the Times' top e-mailed article....

Most E-mailed

  1. Young, Gifted, and Not Getting Into Harvard
  2. In Ducks, War of the Sexes Plays Out in the Evolution of Genitalia
  3. For Motherly X Chromosome, Gender Is Only the Beginning
  4. No, Really, It Was Tough: 4 People, 80 Martinis
  5. A Foodie Scene in the Twin Cities
  10:47 AM  
Comments:
It's fascinating what become the Times's "most e-mailed stories." I've been paying attention for a while. They are almost never about Iraq, Guantanamo, the Supreme Court, even the VaTech shootings. They are about college admissions (the Marilee Jones resignation preceded Winerip as no. 1 for over 24 hrs), homes and real estate, working out & health, etc. Here's a new parlor game for the Internet Age: while you're reading the Times, guess whether X is a top 5 article or not, and go to nytimes.com and check.
# posted by eadw : May 2, 2007 11:32 AM
 
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