Keith O’Brien, contributor to the Boston Globe, reports “you won’t hear this from the admissions office, but college students are cracking the books less and less. They come with polished resumes and perfect SAT scores. Their grades are often impeccable. Some elite universities will deny thousands of high school seniors with 4.0 grade point averages in search of an elusive quality that one provost called ‘intellectual vitality.’ The perception is that today’s over-achieving, college-driven kids have it–whatever it is. They’re not just groomed; they’re ready. There’s just one problem. On campus, the students aren’t studying.”
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