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☆ Why are teens losing their minds about college applications? This senior thinks she knows why
▼ + stars: | 2024-12-22 | by ( Mary Frances Ruskell | Personal Essay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

In these videos, students or, far more often, content creators outline a student’s background. The student was rejected by Harvard, Yale University, Brown University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, Stanford University, the University of Southern California, New York University, Johns Hopkins University and Tulane University. ?”On Reddit, high school students post on the subreddit r/applyingtocollege, familiarly known as A2C. After that, more high school students began sending him their applications. This is just the way that human behavior works — it gravitates towards the extremes.”The waiting gameWhat of the high school students who find his videos panic-inducing?

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☆ My daughter was too overwhelmed to focus on her college applications. I became the nagging parent.
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-13 | by ( Alana Sheeren | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

My high-achieving high school senior had been avoiding her college applications. AdvertisementMy high school senior is typically a happy, easygoing kid who set her sights on graduating in the top 50 of her class before her first day of freshman year. Many high school graduates in our small city go to the local college for two years, then transfer to a University of California or California State school. It's an affordable route that would relieve the pressure, but she said no; she wanted a four-year college experience. My goal was to talk about college only during those scheduled times unless a deadline needed to be met during the week.

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☆ Sundance Diary: Buoy Meets Satellite
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Kyle Buchanan | More About Kyle Buchanan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The third wild film I saw at the Eccles on Friday was “Sasquatch Sunset,” a wordless comedy that follows a quartet of grunting Bigfoots as they trek through the forest for a year. Two of the Sasquatches are played, under heavy prosthetics, by Riley Keough and Jesse Eisenberg, though you’d never know it was them unless you were told beforehand. (Well, maybe some people could clock Eisenberg as the most high-strung Bigfoot, if forced to grade these performances on a sliding sasquatch scale.) What starts off as slapstick becomes weirdly moving as we watch some of the sasquatches succumb to natural disasters. In the ’90s, every independent filmmaker dreamed of launching their career at this festival as the likes of Quentin Tarantino and Steven Soderbergh had.

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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck remember the feeling of being the new kids at the Sundance Film Festival. “I remember being like, oh my God, this festival has been around 20 years, it’s such an old festival,” Boden said in a recent interview with The Associated Press. Their new film debuts Thursday, opening night of the 40th edition of the festival, at the storied Eccles Theater. “My favorite films are Sundance films,” Kaphar said. “That is really nourishing in a year when we’re acknowledging and marking this 40th edition of Sundance.”The Sundance Film Festival runs from Jan. 18 through Jan. 28.

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☆ Fact Check-Photo of transgender wrestler in Texas is missing context
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-06 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

One example shows the photo with text reading, “They are NOT ‘courageous transgender athletes’. The girl Beggs is wrestling in the photo is Elyse Nelson from Lewisville High School, and a video of the match can be seen (here). “That image has been circulating for so long,” Beggs told Reuters Fact Check, adding that he is still friends with Nelson. However, Beggs also wrestled boys through USA Wrestling, which coordinates amateur wrestling programs in the nation. Mack Beggs is a transgender male who was not allowed to compete with males in high school due to a Texas rule on school sports.

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