Excellent Sheep by William Deresiewicz details the rise of our current, activity/award/experience-collecting college admissions process. An advocate for deep thought, this pièce de résistance ties in nicely with most critiques of modern learning. Excellent Sheep spells out the complaints I’ve had for a long time, but does so with an academic rigor and precision of language unforthcoming. Though not Shakespeare, it exists unpretentiously and honestly.
To relate back to the prompt (as I’ve obviously had trouble doing), my defining experience is less of an experience and more of a continuous internal struggle: whether to live in our out of the System. I want a college which dodges the troubles of Deresiewicz but manages to still impress, being both in and out of the system.
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