I’m pleased to announce today that DePaul University is going “test-optional” for students who apply as freshmen for the fall term of 2012. The only thing that will change on the application is the requirement that you submit an ACT or SAT; if you choose not to do so, you’ll be asked to submit responses […]
I wrote this several years ago, in response to an online discussion about whether or not sophomores were ready to think about college. Someone just asked permission to use some of it in a book she’s writing, so I thought I would post it here, too. An Open Letter to High School Sophomores (and probably […]
Another School Year: Why? Although John Ciardi was an accomplished poet in his own right, most people know him only through his translation of Dante’s Inferno. I discovered him quite by accident, as you will see. In 1988 or 1989, when I was working at the University of Dallas, I came across an old, mustard […]
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