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Boston Globe Magazine

January 8, 2012

I know I may lose out to the girl from China who spent her summer feeding starving kids in Darfur, or maybe the 4.0 grade-point average 2,400 SAT music prodigy who's been writing symphonies since he was 6. If that happens, I'll feel terrible; yet, if I get in, someone else will feel that way. If I don't get in, I'll tell myself that admissions officers can't really know who will succeed and who will burn out. (That's why Harvard rejected John Kerry and Warren Buffett but accepted Ted Kaczynski.)

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