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There was a time when I was stupid, and that time was April 1998. Ms. Albarelli, our high school’s guidance counselor, had called in my parents so we could all have a “discussion” about the college application process. Neither my parents nor I had ever done this sort of thing before—they were immigrants, and higher education worked much differently back in India. Knowing that college applications weren’t due for at least six months, I expected this meeting with authority figures would be painless...
Immediately, Ms. Albarelli lit into me. “Rahul, what schools are you applying to?” she asked forcefully...
...Albarelli began ominously. “Well those are excellent schools, of course. But with your grades and extracurriculars, don’t you think you should look at Ivies...
...easy answer, at least in my mind. Harvard wasn’t on ESPN. Nobody from our school or any of our family friends had ever gone there to my knowledge, and I had never been to Boston or cared much about colleges. Ms. Albarelli was aghast, and before we left she made us promise that when we went on our summer vacation trip to Cape Cod (we had also never been there) we would go visit this grand Harvard place of which she spoke...
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