A recent post on the blog Rox and Roll: the Cacaphony of Motherhood has stirred up a bit of controversy: "Parents: Let Harvard Go."
Rox's post was precipitated by several teen suicides close to home and a You Tube video posted by one of her neighbors, sixteen year old Martha Cabot, who attends Gunn High School in Palo Alto, California.
Is Rox encouraging the acceptance of mediocrity? No, as a former admission officer at an Ivy League school, and another "Ivy equivalent" on the West Coast, she has an insider's view of the college admission process and she considers life in the college admission pressure cooker a public health issue.
Read on, parents.
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