I’ve been listening to the radio news, and once again, I’m appalled. Yesterday, the morning host interviewed the author of a new book about applying for college. I won’t provide the book title, or the author’s name. Heaven knows, when one is trying to sell a book, one becomes reluctant to badmouth anyone else trying to do so. But, other than the affability and humor of the author, nothing in the report made me think the book would be worth reading at all.
The book describes the author’s efforts to help his child apply for college. That caught my interested. It lost me when I discovered that the author had paid someone $40,000 to coach his son through the application process.
Let me dwell on that a moment: the family paid someone a year’s college tuition to help the boy get into college! Continue reading
