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Colleges: don’t judge on social media

by Sophie Carr The phrase “College Admissions” provokes a sense of worriment not only in parents, but also for anyone who went through the hell of an undergraduate application procedure.  The horror stories of enrollment follies seem to only augment this anxiety—all of them words of warning or cautionary tales that are just a little too piercingly close to reality; the suspended requests, the rejection letters, technological mishaps—all stories that are grounded in failure.  They all in some way resemble a Brothers Grimm tale. Presented in these parables of woe,...