{"id":104,"date":"2014-04-08T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cms\/?p=104"},"modified":"2014-11-19T14:39:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T19:39:36","slug":"best-brightest-and-rejected-elite-colleges-turn-away-up-to-95-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/best-brightest-and-rejected-elite-colleges-turn-away-up-to-95-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Best, Brightest and Rejected: Elite Colleges Turn Away Up to 95% (NY Times)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year at this time I celebrate the good news with my students and grieve at their the disappointments. And each ensuing year, I find the uncertainties of results for students applying to college intensify. There are demonstrable reasons for these uncertainties on the one hand; then there are the inexplicable outcomes on the other. I encourage those of you who have just come through this trying period of college selection to read the analysis in this recent New York Times article by Richard Perez-Pena. I promise to share it with all of my rising seniors as a reality check for all of the deserving students who may or may not receive the acceptances they anticipated when the next application cycle unfolds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Best-Brightest-and-Rejected-NY-Times.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Elite Colleges<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year at this time I celebrate the good news with my students and grieve at their the disappointments. And each ensuing year, I find the uncertainties of results for students applying to college intensify. There are demonstrable reasons for these uncertainties on the one hand; then there are the inexplicable outcomes on the other. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}