an early spring day, 2010, when my
phone rang and the caller ID revealed an
unfamiliar 203 area code. I answered,
and the voice on the other line told me
that he was the director of admissions at
Yale Law, and that I’d been admitted to
the class of 2013. I was ecstatic and
leaped around during the entire three-
minute conversation. By the time he said
goodbye, I was so out of breath that
when I called Aunt Wee to tell her, she
thought I’d just gotten into a car
accident.
I was sufficiently committed to going
to Yale Law that I was willing to accept
the two hundred thousand dollars or so
in debt that I knew I’d accrue. Yet the
rick simeone
(Rick Simeone)
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