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...rising senior who is worried sick about college applications, I want to thank Nancy Gibbs and Nathan Thornburgh for downplaying the idea that we all need to get into the Ivies [Aug. 21]. As the eldest in my family--and Asian as well--I have always had the feeling that I need to get into a name-brand college. Although I have tried everything to make my parents believe that small liberal-arts colleges can be as good, they still won't budge. It was even harder to get my mom to read your story. The article helped relieve some...
...them shouldn't be seen simply as superficial élitists. Each of the eight Ivy League schools has a unique academic and social culture, as does every college. By practically applauding students who turned down the Ivies and omitting the perspective of any Ivy League student, Thornburgh and Gibbs (a Yale graduate, no less) present a limited viewpoint. SHANA KNIZHNIK Philadelphia...
...would go a step further and ask, Who needs small private schools? While Gibbs and Thornburgh maintain that "small is beautiful," they fail to acknowledge the prominence of America's public universities. The "If you are talented, the sky is the limit" mentality is most appropriate in a public university where students face a more real-world atmosphere of independence and hard work, without a doting dean serving as a third parent. And success has been proved: the majority of the FORTUNE 50 CEOs hail not from the Ivies or small private colleges but from our public universities. KEVIN JAMES...
...sons and daughters of big donors and celebrities. His book on that practice, The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, will be published in September. He spoke with TIME's Nathan Thornburgh about the myth of college meritocracy...
...stay. But in the milling crowd, Cheryl Graves, 47, stepped forward to invite all 20 of them to stay at her three-bedroom house in northwest Houston. Why would she take in total strangers? "Humanity," she says. "They can be here as long as they want." --By Nathan Thornburgh. With reporting by Deborah Fowler/Houston