{"id":26282,"date":"2019-03-20T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26282"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:52:38","slug":"college-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/20\/college-admission\/","title":{"rendered":"COLLEGE ADMISSION"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I knew<\/strong><\/span> a college counselor who if he put in a good word for you, you were in.\u00a0Harvard, Yale, Harvey Mudd, Deep Springs. That’s what we parents all thought, but the counselor didn’t produce every single time. He said go to a college that was a \u201cgood fit.\u201d He, himself, went to Harvard, always a good fit for a college counselor.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my approach — and\u00a0 a tip for high schoolers. Describe a setback you have faced.<\/em> \u201cMy parents don\u2019t like klezmer music. They are so<\/em> wrong.\u00a0I\u2019ve been playing klezmer my whole life. It has made me think for myself and be my own person.\u201d<\/p>\n

I attended a college-rejection shiva in 1968. A high school friend was rejected by every college he applied to. He got in nowhere! And he was in the top 10 in our class. (We’re pretty sure, in hindsight, the guidance counselor blackballed him.) We sat in a corner booth at Corky & Lenny’s and drank chocolate phosphates. My friend eventually got in to Ohio State on a late application. OSU had rolling, open admissions. In Columbus, my friend lived in a high-rise dorm with 16 guys per suite. It was not exactly the house system at Harvard.<\/p>\n

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My dad with his dormmates at Ohio Stadium, about 1935. The men lived in the stadium. All in one room, on cots.<\/p><\/div>\n

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\n Yidd Cup \/ FAD (Funk a Deli) is at Park Syn, Pepper Pipes, Ohio, tonight (March 20) at 7:15 pm. Free. Happy Purim!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I knew a college counselor who if he put in a good word for you, you were in.\u00a0Harvard, Yale, Harvey Mudd, Deep Springs. That’s what we parents all thought, but the counselor didn’t produce every single time. He said go to a college that was a \u201cgood fit.\u201d He, himself, went to Harvard, always a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-of-age"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26282"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26303,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26282\/revisions\/26303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}