People who read college applications are a lot like detectives. Without having been there for the event (the student’s K-12 education and life), they must find clues in documents (high school transcripts and student essays) and eyewitness accounts (letters of recommendation) to solve the case (decide whether a student might be able to thrive at […] The post Sick parents? Caring for siblings? Colleges experiment with asking applicants how home life affects them appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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