Commentary: No, parents can't 'just relax' about college
by Anja Stadelmann Wright, Los Angeles Times
Apr 23, 2019
3 minutes
When the news of the college admissions scandal broke, I thought of one of my psychotherapy patients. She repeatedly brings up in our sessions that her father, a known writer, wrote her college essay and that she believes that's what got her admitted to an Ivy League school. The remarkable part of her story is not that she didn't write her own essay, but that "the cheating" (as she calls it) happened 40 years ago, yet it haunts her to this day.
In the wake of the recent arrests and
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