NYT: Age of Tainted Admissions and Too Much Homework

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<p>Janet Maslin reviews college admissions books, including several that have been discussed on CC: Daniel Golden, The Price of Admissions; Alexandra Robbins, The Overachievers. She also reviews books that deal with the issue of homework and parent-child relations.</p>

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<p>Do you have a link?</p>

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<p>Sorry, Allmusic, I can’t link as I’m not an online subscriber. It’s on the front page of the Weekend Arts section.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/books/08crow.html?ref=arts[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/08/books/08crow.html?ref=arts&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I was at Barnes & Noble looking for the Overachievers book.</p>

<p>Coincidentally, the woman in front of me was looking for the same book. She asked me if I owned an overachiever. (I told her no.)</p>

<p>She said her kids (one at Harvard, one at Brown) told her to read the book, as it would explain them to her.</p>

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<p>Now this made me laugh! Haven’t read the Overachievers (although my D has). Did he get into the college of his dreams? Good sense of humor–</p>

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<p>Wait up. I want my piece of the publishing pie. LOL. </p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=1298696&highlight=SAT+SATAN#post1298696[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?p=1298696&highlight=SAT+SATAN#post1298696&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>commenting on the overwhelming number of Bible schools on the list of ACT only’s-
“it appears obvious that some particularly Bible savvy church-y folk believe that SAT being the first three letters of SATAN is not such an innocent coincidence. Hmmmm. We may have a scoop. Let’s call up Pat, I think I have the number here on my ACT prayer towel.”</p>

<p>Oh, well, I was never meant to be famous anyway. (And I was probably not the first or even fiftieth to see the obvious relationship.)</p>