A Piffany about Getting Into College
College admissions do not happen in a vacuum. Nor does each individual applicant’s journey.
Thirty years ago this week, a slender envelope began to make its way from Princeton, NJ, to my family’s mailbox in Simsbury, Conn.
Opening it, the first word from the Dean of Admissions, Fred Hargadon, told me everything I needed to know: “YES!”
My dream had come tr…