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Why Do (Did) You Want To Go To A "Good" College?

Because, in my friend Gabe Rosen's own words, "one thing that so often gets lost amid all the [college admissions] strategies is why you really want to go somewhere in the first place," he just wrote "a letter to the kid that we all might have been six years ago" about his own experience with choosing colleges, attending colleges, and how he feels about it all now that it's over.

Gabe only asked for my thoughts (and Ramit Sethi's), but I think it's such great stuff that all high school students and their parents should get the chance to read it. So enjoy! And pass it around.

See it on Gabe's blog (preceded by one of his self-proclaimed "typical long-winded introductions")
http://paparosen.blogspot.com/2005/09/only-lad.html

Or download the PDF (gets you right to the meat, and at only 36 KB, it's great for sending to parents and grandparents who love to forward e-mail attachments that their children don't want).
Why Do You Want To Go To A "Good" College? A Letter To A High School Senior

Posted by Ian Ybarra on 17 September 2005