http://theneuroticparent.com/2008/04/she-can-get-you.html Angst-ridden look at the college admissions process Wed, 20 Apr 2016 03:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 http://theneuroticparent.com/2008/04/she-can-get-you.html#comment-2273 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:57:38 +0000 http://theneuroticparent.com/?p=385#comment-2273 Wow. I just did a complicated follow up to this, and then zhived it all out into the great electronic nowhere. Will try again:
–sending you Parents Weekend scripts. Got too busy today.
Looking forward to a regular “links” feature.
First off, here’s the way that a professional does it, and I think you might be curious about this excellent blog, because it’s a window into the world of CJ:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/simmons/index
Next, just to keep the level of discourse on the high side, here’s my own personal favorite blogger:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/
She has PhD in Linguistics or Rhetoric or Literary Theory, but basically she became obsessed with the Scooter Libby trial, and kick ridiculous political ass. She went to Amherst. So did Patrick Fitzgerald. They both played rugby. Can CJ play both rugby and soccer?
Lastly, I’m thinking we need regular NPI analysis of this:
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/education/index.html
This is, of course, the NPI links motherlode. I’m going with “Elite Korean schools forge Ivy League Skills” for starters. All yours, neurotic.

]]> http://theneuroticparent.com/2008/04/she-can-get-you.html#comment-2272 Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:25:32 +0000 http://theneuroticparent.com/?p=385#comment-2272 As a matter of fact, I have written a script called “Parents Weekend 2067″, a gathering at the Marriot in a post-apocalyptic Gambier, Ohio. Any interest?

]]> http://theneuroticparent.com/2008/04/she-can-get-you.html#comment-2271 Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:25:51 +0000 http://theneuroticparent.com/?p=385#comment-2271 It seems like one of the best ways to continue this blog is to keep up a steady stream of links to the endless “news” stories that talk about our situation, with sassy NP commmentary, of course.
This article just happens to show the height of absurdity of the process, a solid 93 on the NPI hysteria scale–and that’s a stern but fair grading system, reserving the top marks for the equivalent of cheerleader murders in the college entrance competition (TV movie brewing here…). And speaking of movies, I know it will be somewhat excrutiating, but we badly need the NPI review of “College Road Trip,” don’t we? People are also selling bad “Parents Weekend” scripts this spring, FYI. But that comes later.

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