{"id":196,"date":"2010-11-21T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-11-21T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cms\/?p=196"},"modified":"2014-11-19T17:03:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T22:03:05","slug":"college-admissions-beyond-the-no-2-pencil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/college-admissions-beyond-the-no-2-pencil\/","title":{"rendered":"College admissions, beyond the No. 2 pencil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(by Robert J. Sternberg, The Washington Post)<\/p>\n<p>Wait list. That was the outcome of my application to Yale. It was better than the outcome at Harvard, which was a rejection, and not as good as the outcome at Princeton, which was an acceptance. I was eventually admitted to Yale, and I later had an opportunity that very few applicants ever have: I got to find out why I had been wait-listed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/CollegeAdmissions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the complete article <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(by Robert J. Sternberg, The Washington Post) Wait list. That was the outcome of my application to Yale. It was better than the outcome at Harvard, which was a rejection, and not as good as the outcome at Princeton, which was an acceptance. I was eventually admitted to Yale, and I later had an opportunity [&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\/196"}],"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=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/takingthenextstep.com\/cm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}