Since the dawn of time (or at least since college admissions became the beast it is today), high school seniors have been pestered with constant questions about their future, chief among them: ‘Where do you want to go to college?’
I have been asked this so many times that I respond from a script: ‘Oh, I don’t know, I’m thinking about going to the East Coast. I like Boston College- Northeastern- Dartmouth- Tufts- Amherst.’ I end with a forced smile and pretend to take a phone call.
The truth is, I don’t know where I’m going to college. I know where I hope to go. But do they want me? Am I good enough? My entire life I have been told, ‘Oh do that, it will look good for college.’ Now I wonder, will it?" …