For the future Class of 2011

The Dean of Admissions at MIT is trying to relax "admission anxiety" by lowering the perceived expectations of college applicants, which leads to ridiculous things like doing research and starting businesses. Great read, my favorite line from this:

Jones has also rewritten MIT's guidelines to interviewers, telling them to look for a good match, not robots with resumes.

Almost exactly what I tell people about whether I like CMU: "It's a good fit."