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In my first blog entry, I noted before my daughter Anna started her journey to college, I never heard of Emerson College. It just wasn't on my radar. Recently, driving home listening to Sirius Radio, I was tuned to The Howard Stern Show. One of the show interns was being interviewed. It seems this intern commutes from Boston to New York each week. When he told Howard where he went to school, without missing a beat, Howard said,"If your in studying to be...

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The Lead into Picture Yourself...

My daughter, Anna, had applied early action. She, like many others, found the "Emerson 2011" Facebook group. Everyone was comparing notes. Now, this is a very focused group of students. They figured that the letters were mailed from Boston. As students received their letters in waves, they were figuring out when the letters would be arriving. Anna had pegged her day. As such, she literally flew home from school ...

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My daughter, Anna, shot her first "commercial" when she was about 13 and she never looked back. She was hooked. It was going to be Video Production. So when the time came to look at colleges, the list shrank to the select few very quickly.

As coming home for the weekends was out of the question from the West Coast, most schools west of the Mississippi came off the list pretty quick. When we spoke with people in the "know", the short list on the...

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