Class of 2016

ColgateDad
Tue, 27 Dec 2011 23:15:56 +0000

Congratulations! Yes, it’s a big fat envelop, one my daughter enjoyed opening. You almost expect the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to step out and sing “Hallelujah!” Not quite that exciting, but still fun.

And there is a college – a good one you can be proud to attend – for everyone. Imagine the number of talented kids Harvard and Yale turn down every year, about 90% of their applicants. Those admissions offices are really not what they call themselves. They’re really more “rejection offices”. Kind of sad for them, in a way, and for all those who could have attended and been successful but found there is no room at the Ivy Inn.

Which makes it a little easier to be a Colgate admissions person since more are accepted, but still some very good students have to be turned away every year – but those good students do end up at similarly very good schools where they get good educations and are very happy.

Don’t get too stressed or too fixated on one supposedly “perfect” school you can’t live without like a teenager with a crush. As much as Colgate is an excellent school, there are 25 other liberal arts colleges which offer similarly very good educations, and perhaps more than that, where any student would be proud to attend.