{ Monthly Archives }
October 2007
Dim like me
Researchers with access to closely guarded college admissions data have found that, on the whole, about 15 percent of freshmen enrolled at Americas highly selective colleges are white teens who failed to meet their institutions’ minimum admissions standards.
When I was a white teen, by golly, you had to get into your not-so-selective institution by your own bootstraps.
Straight outta the Sunset
We’d been thinking about moving across town to the Mission for a long time. Closer to both our jobs, Lilly’s school (and Laura’s too, as of this year), better weather, more diversity, decent coffee. This summer we finally went ahead and got an agent (Steve Davis, who is married to Cassandra Mettling-Davis, the architect who helped wiht our remodel a few years ago) and from there things went very fast. It was of course a big project, and it inevitably oozed on into the school semester, which increased the stress level, but finally we were out of there.
Next chapter: A short-term lease in Bernal Heights while we shop for our new place.
School: The Two Towers
Laura’s report on her new middle school. Bottom line: doesn’t seem to mind it too much. She is playing the saxophone in the band and practicing to try out for the basketball team. Her “elective” class is a peer-support program where she helps other kids with homework and school issues. I’m still not a fan of uniforms on kids, but if that’s my worst complaint, I think we’re doing pretty good.
