Sunday Book Review

The Gatekeepers
by Jacques Steinberg

I read this book on our Mexican cruise and found it fascinating. Steinberg, a NY Times reporter, shadows an admissions officer at Wesleyan University for a year.

Steinberg gives an in depth look at how the school's admissions committee takes grades, test scores, essays, extracurricular activities and race into account as they pick 700 students for the class of 2004 from nearly 7,000 applicants.

Since I seem to have no attention span tonight, see Steinberg's website for more detailed reviews.

Oh, and just for fun, I thought I'd list all the searches this month that led people to this blog:

Some of them have are Simpsons related:
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Some of them are health related:
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And the rest??
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* college fuck (c'mon... how many blogs do you think THAT turned up?)