Conferences like NACAC are restorative--good reminders that we're all in this together and that college access is the common goal shared by teachers, counselors, admission personnel, and yes, even students! Their decisions are driven by a desire to provide opportunities and education to everyone who wants to take advantage of it.
This gets muddled when efforts to simplify actually make things harder. So the College Board says the Score Choice option on SAT's is supposed to make the testing stress go away--not! And the Common Application tried to clear the field of all those school-specific essays. But now we have that single essay... and a veritable bee swarm of other school-specific questions. E.g., "How did you get caught?" (University of Chicago undergraduate application 2009)
So hooray for NACAC and hooray for the wonderful hospitality of Baltimore. Let's get back to the challenge of choosing a school where you can thrive and writing your way in.
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