When I Dropped Out At 20, My Sister Told Everyone: “She’s The One Who Didn’t Finish.” Twelve Years Later, I’m Yale’s Dean Of Admissions. One Essay Read: “My Family Moved Past My Aunt’s Setback.” The Name? Amanda Chen. My Niece. I Picked Up My Red Pen And…

editor who talks too much,” I said. “No,” she told me. “You know how to see what someone is trying to do before they can do it. That is rarer than you think.” She was the first person to suggest graduate school not as a corrective but as expansion. “Get the degree if you want the doors it opens,” she said. “Not because you need legitimizing. You already continue reading …