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Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students, and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize. Joie Jager-Hyman (Harper).(Fat Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students, and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize)(Brief article)(Book review)

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Envelope Frenzy: One Year, Five Promising Students, and the Pursuit of the Ivy League Prize. Joie Jager-Hyman (Harper). "After hearing the news from MIT, Nabil ... called both Princeton and MIT to negotiate for more time ... . Princeton, however, would not budge ..." and Nabil "will be a member of the Princeton University class of 2011.'I wasn't crying or anything,'" Nabil bravely reassures the author, while mournfully "picking his cuticles." Readers inclined to get weepy over inadequate MIT financial aid packages will find plenty of pathos in this journalistic account by former Dartmouth admissions officer Jager-Hyman. Employing the usual tropes of the genre, Jager-Hyman ...

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