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College Applications Still Driving Kids – and Parents – Crazy

November 29, 2008

Tags: college application, anxiety, parental anxiety, Education Conservancy, U.S. News & World Report, college rankings, parenting, stressed-out parents, stressed-out kids

The glossy pamphlets still flood in: “Live, study, and work in both sleek high-rise towers and turn-of-the-century brownstones,” reads the gorgeously thick Boston University brochure. “Win a Hummer. All you have to do is attend an SJSU football game” trumpets San Jose State University’s.

As kids fill out their college applications amidst the (more…)

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