Writes Mark Seiler: Hi Lew, Interesting that the discipline question has been removed for college applications. It reinforces something that hit me last week when I was driving to the Atlanta  area about 4AM.  I was listening to WGN from Chicago (I love listening to far away stations while driving at night) when they had a conversation about student loans and how repayments had been suspended due to Covid-1984 and such. It suddenly dawned on me that colleges, for the most part, are not institutions of “higher learning” but, have become, like auto dealers, merely financial instruments. Car dealers aren’t … Continue reading Common App