Musings About Life... After Birth

Check out this article in today’s New York Times.

Guess I’m not the only one who’s anti-chicken fingers.

This article in the New York Times about the impossibility that is getting into exclusive colleges lists my alma mater, Lehigh University, as a “second-tier college” (you know, not Yale or Harvard, but a step right below). According to the article, Lehigh has become a “New Ivy”, as getting an acceptance letter from an actual Ivy these days is apparently as difficult as getting a clear answer as to why the hell Britney Spears refuses to hire a stylist despite allegedly wanting to make a comeback. Therefore, and luckily for Lehigh, tons of talented kids who unfortunately are not the Pope or have discovered the cure for cancer are lowering their standards for schools like Lehigh and its inferior Patriot League companions Bucknell and Colgate. I guess it’s good that Lehigh is seeing more skilled applicants and will be accepting all sorts of talented Penn and Cornell rejects, which is totally unlike how it was when I was there. Not.

The article notes that Lehigh’s (an other second-tier colleges’) admissions numbers have skyrocketed recently, which I find somewhat baffling, not because there are so many people who want to attend school in Bethlehem, PA, which is quite possibly the WORST college town on Earth, but because a 4-year education there costs upwards of $200,000. Who the heck can afford this exorbitant tuition rate? I shudder to think of what it will cost when my son wants to go to college….