They're spending high school looking ahead to college. Leah Popowich, a Lower Merion High School senior, voiced the same concern in her Penn application. So is the obsession with padding the transcript with activities - the way a game warden stocks a stream with trout. In some ways, it was more fun in the old days, she said, when an admissions officer could take more chances on long-shot applicants. Calhoun said of the Class of 2000.
College admissions is a cyclical business, and one cycle begins before the previous one ends.
The work of creating the Class of 2000 is just winding down. But Penn people already are recruiting high school juniors. For the Class of 2001.