UPDATES – The Seven Kids in “Acceptance”

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Lee Kim

Lee laughed recently as he recalled his desire to go to Deep Springs, an all-male college on a ranch in California. He’d ended up at New York University, and he had no doubt he’d gone to the right place. He also felt he’d sometimes come off as arrogant when he was at high school.

Chelsea Flynn

Chelsea is spending the summer teaching sailing after a fulfilling first year at the College of Charleston. She has no regrets about turning down NYU and Skidmore.

Jeff Sanders

Jeff returned home invigorated after freshman year at West Virginia University, and hopes to beecome the manager of the basketball coach.

Allyson Frankel

Allyson Frankel found her place at the University of Michigan, and was glad for a change from small-town Oyster Bay.

Riana Tyson

While Riana excelled in classes at City College of New York, she has been feeling the pull of the unknown. She sometimes thinks about transferring out of New York, to another state.

Layla Eran

Layla Eran applied to twenty-eight programs, but ended up happily at one of those closest to home: Barnard College. She was certain she wanted to become a psychiatrist, but now she’s considering other options.

Nathaniel Coleman

Nathaniel reports that he’s made friends and found challenging courses at Worcester Polytechnic. The Cornell wait list didn’t work out, but he doesn’t mind.

THE OTHER STUDENTS

Andreas

After spending his life in the New York suburbs, Andreas needed some time to adjust to

Georgia Tech, but he did well in classes and liked the chance to start over.

Curtis

After winning the Horatio Alger scholarship, a national award, Curtis had high hopes for the University of Miami. But he left after one semester. Too many of his classmates, he said, were simply interested in partying.

Kasper

Kasper, like Lee Kim, found NYU’s intellectual feeling and fast pace a perfect.

Jenna

Jeff’s girlfriend, Jenna, needed some time to settle into Barnard College. She hopes to become a doctor, and to work with diabetic children.

Dominique

As an aspiring actress, Dominique found plenty of competition at Emerson College in Boston. By the spring of her first year, she had appeared in several student productions and she liked the school.

Colin

After finishing his first crew season at Dartmouth College, Colin said he couldn’t picture himself anywhere else – not even Yale, which his older brother attends. Colin added that while he liked Oyster Bay High School, he finds college much more interesting.

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