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Article: Colleges should give kids and parents a break.(Editorial)
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2006
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The following editorial appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Wednesday, Sept. 20:
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Bok to the future.
In the movies, young time traveler Marty McFly goes back to the 1950s and inadvertently messes with the futures of his then-teenage parents.
That was then; that was Hollywood.
"Bok to the future" is a drama playing out in the admissions offices of about 100 elite colleges nationwide. If it's a hit, those colleges will soon be doing less to mess with the minds of bright young high school students, and their parents.
Derek Bok, interim president of Harvard University, announced recently that Harvard would ...