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...Until you start to read cases, you tend to think of admissions as something fairly mechanical,” he says. “And that is, okay, you’re going to take so many people who are like this, or you’re going to take so many from this kind of school, or from this part of the country, or with this kind of an academic interest... [but] real people are not like that...
...Yale’s dean of undergraduate admissions, Jeff Brenzel, writes in an e-mail that like Harvard, Yale hires a mix of senior and junior officers who make admissions decisions together in committee. He notes that the junior officers tend to work for two to four years before moving on and are mostly Yale graduates...
...flipping blatant favoritism back to their shared advantage. "They'll say to one another, 'Why don't you ask Mom if we can go to the mall because she never says no to you,'" says Conger. But at a deeper level, second-tier children may pay a price. "They tend to be sadder and have more self-esteem questions," Conger says. "They feel like they're not as worthy, and they're trying to figure...
...conducted in Britain with a large group of many different kinds of nontraditional families. In general, the researchers have found that the intensity of the relationships closely follows the degree of physical relatedness. No hard rules have emerged, but the more genes you share, the more deeply invested you tend to grow. "Biological siblings just get into it more," says Thomas O'Connor, an associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center. "They are warmer and also more conflicted...
Such powerful connections become even more important as the inevitable illnesses or widowhood of late life lead us to lean on the people we've known the longest. Even siblings who drift apart in their middle years tend to drift back together as they age. "The relationship is especially strong between sisters," who are more likely to be predeceased by their spouses than brothers are, says Judy Dunn, a developmental psychologist at London's Kings College. "When asked what contributes to the importance of the relationship now, they say it's the shared early childhood experiences, which cast a long...