Choosing a college isn’t unlike choosing a spouse
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Choosing a college isn’t unlike choosing a spouse: both are momentous decisions that alter your life path and stick with you, in theory, until your last breath. Only one of them, however, is imposed upon our nation’s brightest minds around the time they turn 18.
As researchers have quantified the stakes, and the available information about prospective schools soars, the pressure to pick correctly has become increasingly acute. The process starts much earlier than it did a generation ago, and it foments months of stress for parents and high-schoolers alike.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/08/28/newsweek-ranks-the-best-colleges.html
