Reading Season
Babies, wine and retirement are among the few things left that require waiting more than three months for a result after finishing all of the preparations. For high school seniors and the parents of high school seniors, there’s another: college admissions decisions.
To anyone conditioned to expect immediate responses of the sort received when placing an order on Amazon or updating a Facebook status, the delay between pressing the submit button on the Common Application’s website and learning the final outcome may seem interminable.
Unfortunately, technology hasn’t yet provided a shortcut that sufficiently accounts for the merits coded in recommendations, the strength of voice evident in writing samples, or the positive grade trends that belie overall averages.
Until such time, we’ll stick with a time-tested slow way, which requires the establishment of unique context for every application and ensures at least two different readers for each of them. Tomatoes grow faster, and sports seasons end sooner, but trust me, we need the time. Intentional inefficiency sometimes serves a higher purpose.
– Henry Broaddus
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