<p>tokenadult, that is a thoughful article.</p>
<p>I am realizing more lately, in reading the threads here on CC, that high school students tend to think of elite universities in a way similar to how young women in the 1950s - 1970s thought about their futures – that they needed to be rescued by the right <a href=“college”>man</a>, <a href=“get%20a%20great%20Corporate%20job%20out%20of%20college/get%20into%20a%20great%20grad%20school”>whom they would marry</a> and live happiliy ever after <a href=“doing%20whatever%20professionals%20do”>eating bon bons and chatting on the phone with their similarly stress free rescued suburban friends</a>.</p>