Inside Higher Ed: One applicant who came to Michele Hernandez this fall for help getting into college had two academic passions – science and Latin – and great grades, too. With report after report calling on colleges to attract more talent to STEM fields, and jobs going unfilled for lack of science and technology expertise, perhaps play up the science? Not for this applicant. Hernandez, the author of A Is for Admission and the founder of a high-end private counseling service, said she steered the applicant in the other direction. He is an Asian American.

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