Dr. Marc Breedlove

In this first edition, they were in alphabetical order, which makes no sense, but that's how it was.

I get to the end, and the one for Yale College, it's like one of the shortest...

listings there and it says basically we're committed to making sure everyone admitted will get the financial aid they need and

This is me.

This is where I did.

Well, the next entry was Yeshiva, which I thought, well, that's a strange name.

But if they'd had that paragraph, believe me, I would have been applying there, which would have been fun too.

And so I go to my counselor and I say, well, I'd never heard of Yale.

I mean, I associated it with locks.

I'd heard of Harvard because of Kennedy, but nobody in my family talked.

I go to my counselor.

Her name was Jean Walker.

And she said, that's an Ivy League school.

Huh?

What does that mean?

And she tells me.

And to her credit, she doesn't say, that's stupid.

You're never, you know, why would you be doing that?

She says, you know what?

You should apply for early admissions this year.