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April 4, 2006
Hovering Parents and Denial
Another story from the Washington Post college feature -- a University of Virginia admissions officer talks about fielding calls from the parents of the rejected. Not the students who didn't get in, but parents. Legacies play a big part of her anecdotes -- I can only imagine how unpleasant those conversations must be. The story about the mother who seems more concerned with the timing (the summer before that critical junior year of high school) of her way-over-the-top-Too-Much-Information recounting of her husband's affair than the fact that he did it at all may be the best.
Posted by CrankyProfessor at April 4, 2006 7:10 AM