<p>Based on behind-the-scenes tales from college and university officials interviewed for todays Work & Family Column, here are this years top college-admissions gaffes:</p>
<p>Have Mom sign your application. Admissions offices are getting applications signed by parents instead of students…</p>
<p>Praise the wrong school. …</p>
<p>Enclose your personal marketing plan. One Vanderbilt University applicant accidentally sent the admissions office a hand-written, point-by-point list detailing his familys strategy to get the child admitted…</p>
<p>Send along that Post-It to Mom. Barnard received one application with a sticky note attached saying, Mom, do you think this sounds good?</p>
<p>Expound on sex in the personal essay…</p>
<p>Upon receiving a rejection letter, load the whole family into the car, drive several hundred miles to the admissions office, and demand to see the dean…
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