Wednesday 18 July, 2007 at 8:58:13 pm
filed under school
It’s been a while since I last posted; I might as well get back into it.
The parental obsession over college applications has reached a new level. Having successfully determined that college counselors are of no use to me (the $70 we spent on that session should have instead gone to provide hot meals for starving African children), we are hiring another, even more expensive college counselor for a session or two. There is no talking them out of it.
This counselor is not going to help me pick schools, because I’ve already done that. This counselor is not going to help me prepare my application becuase 1. I am not hopelessly disorganized. 2. I can write perfectly well, thank you very much, and 3. applications aren’t even available yet.
So why, having determined that the functionality provided by a counselor is useless, do we turn around and hire another one? Suffice it to say that the new counselor works for a school with a better track record for applications to prestigious institutions with leafy walls. Neither of my parents will admit it, but we are talking to this person with the hope that he will pass my name along to his friends on the admissions committees of said prestigious institutions - nothing more.
What this amounts to, in other words, is a bribe. I feel sick.
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