Where’s a b-student to turn? (Wall Street Journal)

In recent years, as the college-admissions process has reached a frenzy, much of the focus has been on the plight of type-A families and their A-earning progeny getting rejected by the top 100 or so schools in the country. This competitiveness started with the Ivies and then spread to what such students had long considered safety schools, like Tufts or Pomona. Yet with the exception of a few elite public universities (Berkeley, Michigan, Virginia), the country’s big state schools pretty much welcomed decent students with open arms and few questions.