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A frenzied student hunches over scattered sheets of college applications, each one asking a battery of thorny essay questions. Oh, the college application process, how fun it can be – for masochists.

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It has been clear for some time that the American college admissions system is fundamentally flawed. Between the Common App’s monopoly over the admissions process and U.S. News & World Report's ...