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Dave, AFL and others -- This post pertains to the off topic dialogue between Dave and AFL in the middle of the *extracurriculars thread in the College Admissions section* re the article in the Boston Globe about the study done by Stacy Berg Dale and Alan Krueger. Originally, I had thought about posting on the bottom of the extra-curricular thread but thought it would be better to not jam that up with more "off-topic stuff." But, I would encourage everyone to check out Dave and AFL's exchange. (There is no link to the Boston Globe article; apparently it can be accessed in archives but there is a fee to do so).

The link below (no archive fee here!) is to an article written by Washington Post education columnist Jay Mathews (April 8, 2001) about what I believe is the very same study by Dale and Krueger (perhaps being a year later the Boston Globe article had some updated info?). Mathews' college choice anecdotes are pretty interesting: from his own personal disappointment in Harvard after transferring in from Occidental to a run down of the alma maters of the movers and shakers at the Washington Post interspersed with the overwhelming disappointment of a student not admitted to Penn who recovers and finds her ultimate fit at Tufts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35560-2001Apr4.html

Dave -- Re Mathews' alma mater survey at the Washington Post, I was thinking that this article might be a good link to post on the journalism schools thread.