Word: schmarvard
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...Harvard Schmarvard, a witty new volume on college admissions by Washington Post education reporter Jay Mathews ’67, the author attempts to head off college bound students and parents’ college admissions hysteria...
...Harvard Schmarvard, he attributes the greatest hysteria to private schools like Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C., but he also includes top public high schools like Mamaroneck High in New York’s Westchester County in his analysis of the admissions craze...
Mathews also claims in Harvard Schmarvard that low-income students, many of whom are first generation college students from inner-city or rural schools, have a “definite advantage” in the applications process. But while suburban kids need to “chill out” about the process, he writes, students from low-income backgrounds should become “more anxious,” taking such measures as beginning standardized testing before senior year...
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