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Download full textWhite, Scott – Journal of College Admission, 2002
As a counselor at Montclair High School (New Jersey) for the past eleven years, the author worries about the best and the brightest of U.S. high school students who are suffering from anxiety, depression, anorexia and panic attacks. The author suspects that the common thread among these students is the obsessive desire to obtain admission to the…
Descriptors: Well Being, Higher Education, College Admission, Depression (Psychology)
