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Among the Intellectualoids
My Application to Harvard
How Kaavya Viswanathan got a life.
(Page 2 of 5)
September 4, 2003, 11:00 a.m.
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Kaavya,
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p>Katherine told me that you were showing resistance about
changing your first sentence. For goodness sake, we did not raise
you to go to Brown where you could just float around and not do
anything. If Katherine tells you to change something, change it, I
don’t care what you think about it.
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—Daddy
/p>
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September 4, 2003, 11:30 a.m.
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Dear Kaavya,
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Don’t worry about it. Let’s just focus on getting you into Harvard! I think your next sentence actually works very well and there’s very little I would change.
I’ve learned not to be a victim, not to blame everything on a domineering, chauvinist father; how can he help what he has been raised to believe?
Maybe we should put this in a greater context though, so we aren’t simply focusing on your father, but on society at large. Here’s what we’ll do:
p> I’ve learned not to be a victim, not to blame everything on an oppressive culture that expects little of its women. Instead, I take that as a challenge to transcend those expectations. This is why I’m not worried about the presence of Larry Summers
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J.P. Freire is a writer in Washington and a former editor at the Washington Examiner and The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jpfreire.
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