Jacoba Urist

NBC News, Atlantic magazine

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Health, education and business contributing journalist for NBC News and the Today show, she also writes for The Atlantic

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All over the country, high school graduates are grinding their teeth over where to enroll in college. But what about getting those acceptance letters in the first place?

Is College Really Harder to Get Into than It Used to Be?

All over the country, high school graduates are grinding their teeth over where to enroll in college. But what about getting those acceptance letters in the first place?

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