It certainly makes me appreciate how lucky I've been to spend my whole career in the rarefied world of need-blind admission. I take it for granted, but it's not the norm; a 2010 article I found cites only 46 need-blind schools (and many, including Mudd, are not need-blind for international students).
This ties in well to the current NPR series on the American Dream. Personally, my American Dream is for all qualified students to have the opportunity to go to an accredited, nonprofit college, and for our public education system to become a priority so that schools produce nothing but qualified students capable of tackling college coursework.
And if you think that all public schools are just fine and dandy -- well, you haven't read college applications for eight years. One of our incoming first-years hails from a California school where six percent go on to four-year college. SIX PERCENT, people. In one New Jersey suburb, that same figure is ninety-six percent.
Okay. Off the soapbox. Moving on to more neutral topics, here is a photo of a Western Fence Lizard (not the lizard in residence in Kingston, who is the Roadrunner of reptiles, and cannot be caught):
And another one of the construction:
It looks more and more like a real building every day. And even with one floor it already beats the square footage of Thomas-Garrett by a significant margin.
Interesting article link Colleen; thanks. As a member of the middle class, all I can say is - if it weren't for grandparents who started 529's for my kids, my children would be in bad shape. Private college is great for the very poor (but smart) and very rich. Those of us in the middle are out of luck.
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