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The Threshold: College Admissions

Posted on Saturday April 11th, 2009 at 16:58 in Yale, brown, harvard, stanford, malcolm gladwell, outliers

So, the most competitive college admissions season is nearly behind us. What have we learned? What has been seen by students (and families) applying this year to college is that there is no way to know for sure how colleges make admissions' decisio...
RE-DEFINING SUCCESS: MALCOLM GLADWELL'S NEW BOOK, OUTLIERS

Posted on Monday December 8th, 2008 at 20:36 in success, malcolm gladwell, outliers

I just had a great discussion this evening with my friend Emily who is the Head of a school in Vermont. We were talking about the nature of success in our industry, education, and generally what it takes to be successful at anything. Although I hav...