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Posted May 9, 2011 by Jeff V.
Mitch Albom did a story recently that really hit home for me personally and I imagine it will for others as well. It’s entitled, The College That Rejects You May Do You a Favor.
Our second daughter is going through the college application/decision process. While our first daughter pretty much knew where she wanted to go, applied and got accepted, our second daughter’s process has been more involved.
Of the eleven schools she applied to, she was accepted to five and wait-listed at two. She has received the acceptances and polite rejections with maturity way beyond her years. She is now focused on narrowing the field so she can commit to a school by May 1st.
Her mother and I, however, are enraged. Why wouldn’t every school accept our daughter? She is intelligent, hard working and dedicated to giving to others in addition to going to a great high school, getting fantastic grades, notable standardized test scores and has a list of extracurricular activities that exhausts me just to read. Any school would be lucky to have her.
This year more than any other, a lower percentage of students are being accepted to colleges nationwide. And with the common application process (filling out a single college application that can be sent to as many schools as you’d like) the universities are filled to the brim with qualified candidates. So while our daughter stands out from the view point of anyone who knows her, not all of the school admission personnel are able to see what we see. From a biased parent’s point of view, that is not easy to accept.
We’ve been there for her through the years. Putting bandages on the cuts. Picking her up when she falls. Opening doors when we can. We’ve been needed less and less as she has grown through her high school years and she is handling the first step in her transition, selecting a college, just fine.
Just because we’re frustrated and may not understand a college’s opaque reasoning doesn’t mean we’re right or we know better – despite what our hardwiring and years of parenting experience have instilled in us.
We’re learning something, even now. Even through this.
Come to think of it, maybe it’s already doing us a favor.
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—Frank Chimero, What advice would you give to a graphic design student?
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Before we get to our standard Friday links, a question. This morning, a water cooler conversation broke out that got us talking: what are the best movie scenes you remember?
Lots of answers to this, but these are the ones that everyone agreed really stood out.
There’s the famous Glengarry Glen Ross monologue, which many argue launched Alec Baldwin’s career in earnest. Or a similar scene in Boiler Room starring Vin Diesel. Then there’s the wallet scene in Pulp Fiction. Or the courtroom scene in A Few Good Men. Or maybe some more Alec Baldwin in a classic narcissistic rant in Malice. The Billy Madison everyone-is-now-dumber scene. Blazing Saddles’s campfire cowboys. Or, maybe, when John (Owen Wilson) meets Chazz (Will Ferrell) in Wedding Crashers.
What are yours? Let us know in the comments.
Posted September 22, 2009 by Jeff V.
Great article by Chris Dixon about how people say they want another career but remain, even years later, doing something they aren’t passionate about. And these are smart, talented people, in most cases. We’re not talking about aimless folks who don’t care to know better.
Worth reading the whole article, if only for some good career perspective.

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