Is the College Waitlist Just Another Way to Torture Our Kids?

Our teens are expected to hoist themselves over a fair number of seemingly insurmountable hurdles during the college process, but one of the cruelest and most frustrating may be the college waitlist.

Let’s review. It has become nary impossible to get into the top schools, the so-called “highly selective” schools. I’m not saying that getting into those schools should be the holy grail because I don’t buy into the hype, but if a top 25 school is where you desire to be, it may be time to reasses...