Breanne shares Shut Up about Harvard from FiveThirtyEight:

Here’s how the national media usually depicts the admissions process: High school seniors spend months visiting colleges; writing essays; wrangling letters of recommendation; and practicing, taking and retaking an alphabet soup of ACTs, SATs and AP exams. Then the really hard part: months of nervously waiting to find out if they are among the lucky few (fewer every year, we’re told!) with the right blend of academic achievement, extracurricular involvement and an odds-defying personal story to gain admission to their favored university.”

Given a choice, most major press outlets, especially around college admissions, will write what’s newsworthy, not necessarily what’s normal. If you’re tired of the baiting headlines that just inject more fear and bad drama into the college admissions process, and if you’re ready for facts backed up with hard data, read the rest of the article here.