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- LETTERS, Page 6Hyping for College
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- We surely can't fault those overeager youngsters who apply
- for admission to U.S. colleges and universities and offer proof
- of their talents in videotapes, paintings and cookies
- (EDUCATION, Dec. 19). They will, after all, grow up. But what
- about those gatekeepers at the halls of higher learning, college
- admissions officers? Are they really not taken in by these
- sycophantic, exhibitionist and plasticized efforts to be
- noticed?
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- Barbara Haupt Deer Park, Wash.
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- I am advising my children to think twice before selecting
- a college whose admissions staff can be influenced by
- chocolate-chip cookies or other gimmicks.
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- Patrick F. Culbert Eau Claire, Wis.
-