COVID & college admissions

For this NYT op-ed piece, Frank Bruni interviewed Jeff Selingo, one of the best journalists covering higher ed. Selingo observes that the playing field for admissions will be the same this year, but that some of the rules will go out the window. And maybe some of those rules — for example, the need to showcase a flamboyant multiplicity of extracurricular activities — were dumb anyway and deserve to go.