So excited to see the addition of interns to your team, Bari. Thanks for taking the time to introduce them to your readers. I was, however, perplexed that you couldn’t find a candidate from a state college or smaller private university. As we try to solve the whole cost of higher ed conundrum, I believe the lower tuition non-Ivy League schools are one avenue that needs to be considered. Would just love to see a bright, up-and-coming person from one of these types of schools get a high-profile opportunity.
Congratulations The Free Press, and congratulations to all the interns. I'm from Argentina and it is a delight to get access to such outstanding journalism.
Interns, can you help me? I want to hire an in-person SF writing tutor for 2 hrs or 200hrs. I have not yet decided. I am a 56 yr old retiree who analyzes public policy as a hobby.
I want a tutor to teach me how to replace multiple sentences with a drawing or flowchart or table. My goal is to make my information more understandable.
Welcome to all of them. Abigail Anthony must be ferocious to have written what she did at Princeton. I can only imagine the resistance she faced. I wish them all luck.
All so impressive and they give me hope for a future of independent thinkers, in a sea of graduates who were programmed as to what to think, and not how.
I was especially impressed with Julia's Essay in the Stanford Review.
Super stoked my subscription is helping TFP create a solid foundation and hiring these interns. Any of them want to tackle an article helping future collegiate students find a home that supports free thinkers?
While I'm sure these interns will do very well, I'm going to join the chorus calling for a bit more real diversity, in terms of geography, culture and class. Apart from UMD (go Terps!), everyone else is Ivy League or Stanford. Yes, Stanford and the Ivies are top notch and you can (assuming we're not talking legacy admissions) count on a student from there being excellent. BUT....those schools accept a vanishingly small number of applicants; that means all the rest of the geniuses can be found elsewhere. Find the talented writer at Yeshiva U or BYU. The outstanding junior at a state school in the deep South. The army vet getting a degree using their GI Bill rights. The child of blue-collar immigrants who's getting a degree at a community college.
Case in point: Dan Rather graduated from a state teacher's college.
Please don't become the NPR thought bubble of the center-right. :(
Saying this all with respect and without any intent to bash your interns. I very much appreciate your work and wish them all much success.
Gila - UD, class of 1997 (a boring, but solid, state school).
It looks like others beat me to the point I was going to make, but I want to concur with the sentiment that while these are all extremely impressive and promising young people, it would be nice to see some more diversity in the colleges represented. It's all Stanford, Princeton and Brown. I suspect this is partly because Bari likely went to just such a school. There are very bright, hard-working, high-achieving students at state schools and (as an alumna of one), it's hard for me to believe TFP didn't receive plenty of applications from them. As far as the arguments that the Ivy League is where you get "the best," I say hogwash. As we've seen, there are many different reasons why students are admitted to these institutions (no disrespect to these particular interns), which may or may not have to do with academic excellence or qualifications (such as legacy admissions). You shouldn't be automatically excluded from certain opportunities merely because you don't attend an elite university; that is classism in the extreme. It's also discouraging and demoralizing to students of such colleges--why should they even bother trying to excel if they're always going to be second-class citizens?
Quite impressive credentials on these diverse and spectacular candidates. They will undoubtedly do wonderful things with their lives and careers and I look forward to reading their contributions to the FP. Almost every one, however, hails from an ivy. I was surprised given how the FP tends to think outside the box. I expected to read about the obscure schools at which you found your interns. With the incredible stresses on students and the infinitesimal acceptance rates at the schools represented in your intern pool, the FP is simply reinforcing the "you have to go to an ivy if you want to <fill in the blank> because a mid tier school is not good enough" message. High school students have had to contend with increasing levels of stress that have only compounded over the last few years (test optional, more students deferring - leaving fewer places for the next year's cohort, more schools loading their freshman class with full-pay ED admits, the revelations on how heavily stacked the ivies are with legacy candidates, etc). Parents and guidance counselors are trying to convince their students to think outside the ivies (and the ivy adjacent) to limit stress at application time. The message we want to send high school seniors is that they can succeed and do well no matter where they go. Reading the resumes of the interns was a wake up call that indeed, kids who have high aspirations actually will do better and go further if they can get into an ivy - that is just the way the world still works. It feels deceptive to tell them otherwise.
Congratulations to both the interns and The Free Press. The interns have a great opportunity and The Free Press has a great group of interns to help it move forward.
Absolutely terrific. Inspires me to have hope for the future. If this is happening here, similar things must be happening elsewhere. Richard Robinson age 93.
I’m a huge fan of TFP. In response to so many comments about the educational background of these interns, it would be interesting to hear how TFP plans to prevent itself from becoming that thing which it rejects. That effort must be intentional. After all, I don’t believe the legacy media intended to become what it now is. But one day, far too late, we all woke up, like Bari, and discovered that the change had been occurring right before our eyes. With great success comes great challenges. I hope TFP doesn’t just become the plant from “Little Shop of Horrors.” Feed me, Seymour! 😉
what is the contact information for a current aspiring college journalist wishing to apply for an internship?
So excited to see the addition of interns to your team, Bari. Thanks for taking the time to introduce them to your readers. I was, however, perplexed that you couldn’t find a candidate from a state college or smaller private university. As we try to solve the whole cost of higher ed conundrum, I believe the lower tuition non-Ivy League schools are one avenue that needs to be considered. Would just love to see a bright, up-and-coming person from one of these types of schools get a high-profile opportunity.
Congratulations The Free Press, and congratulations to all the interns. I'm from Argentina and it is a delight to get access to such outstanding journalism.
Interns, can you help me? I want to hire an in-person SF writing tutor for 2 hrs or 200hrs. I have not yet decided. I am a 56 yr old retiree who analyzes public policy as a hobby.
I want a tutor to teach me how to replace multiple sentences with a drawing or flowchart or table. My goal is to make my information more understandable.
Welcome to all of them. Abigail Anthony must be ferocious to have written what she did at Princeton. I can only imagine the resistance she faced. I wish them all luck.
All so impressive and they give me hope for a future of independent thinkers, in a sea of graduates who were programmed as to what to think, and not how.
I was especially impressed with Julia's Essay in the Stanford Review.
Bravo to all five.
Super stoked my subscription is helping TFP create a solid foundation and hiring these interns. Any of them want to tackle an article helping future collegiate students find a home that supports free thinkers?
While I'm sure these interns will do very well, I'm going to join the chorus calling for a bit more real diversity, in terms of geography, culture and class. Apart from UMD (go Terps!), everyone else is Ivy League or Stanford. Yes, Stanford and the Ivies are top notch and you can (assuming we're not talking legacy admissions) count on a student from there being excellent. BUT....those schools accept a vanishingly small number of applicants; that means all the rest of the geniuses can be found elsewhere. Find the talented writer at Yeshiva U or BYU. The outstanding junior at a state school in the deep South. The army vet getting a degree using their GI Bill rights. The child of blue-collar immigrants who's getting a degree at a community college.
Case in point: Dan Rather graduated from a state teacher's college.
Please don't become the NPR thought bubble of the center-right. :(
Saying this all with respect and without any intent to bash your interns. I very much appreciate your work and wish them all much success.
Gila - UD, class of 1997 (a boring, but solid, state school).
It looks like others beat me to the point I was going to make, but I want to concur with the sentiment that while these are all extremely impressive and promising young people, it would be nice to see some more diversity in the colleges represented. It's all Stanford, Princeton and Brown. I suspect this is partly because Bari likely went to just such a school. There are very bright, hard-working, high-achieving students at state schools and (as an alumna of one), it's hard for me to believe TFP didn't receive plenty of applications from them. As far as the arguments that the Ivy League is where you get "the best," I say hogwash. As we've seen, there are many different reasons why students are admitted to these institutions (no disrespect to these particular interns), which may or may not have to do with academic excellence or qualifications (such as legacy admissions). You shouldn't be automatically excluded from certain opportunities merely because you don't attend an elite university; that is classism in the extreme. It's also discouraging and demoralizing to students of such colleges--why should they even bother trying to excel if they're always going to be second-class citizens?
Quite impressive credentials on these diverse and spectacular candidates. They will undoubtedly do wonderful things with their lives and careers and I look forward to reading their contributions to the FP. Almost every one, however, hails from an ivy. I was surprised given how the FP tends to think outside the box. I expected to read about the obscure schools at which you found your interns. With the incredible stresses on students and the infinitesimal acceptance rates at the schools represented in your intern pool, the FP is simply reinforcing the "you have to go to an ivy if you want to <fill in the blank> because a mid tier school is not good enough" message. High school students have had to contend with increasing levels of stress that have only compounded over the last few years (test optional, more students deferring - leaving fewer places for the next year's cohort, more schools loading their freshman class with full-pay ED admits, the revelations on how heavily stacked the ivies are with legacy candidates, etc). Parents and guidance counselors are trying to convince their students to think outside the ivies (and the ivy adjacent) to limit stress at application time. The message we want to send high school seniors is that they can succeed and do well no matter where they go. Reading the resumes of the interns was a wake up call that indeed, kids who have high aspirations actually will do better and go further if they can get into an ivy - that is just the way the world still works. It feels deceptive to tell them otherwise.
Welcome TFP interns, you all look to be great additions to the staff, hope you enjoy your experiences with TFP : )
(and don't stress about the comments *sigh* )
Congratulations to both the interns and The Free Press. The interns have a great opportunity and The Free Press has a great group of interns to help it move forward.
Absolutely terrific. Inspires me to have hope for the future. If this is happening here, similar things must be happening elsewhere. Richard Robinson age 93.
And one other comment, a quote from Thomas Sowell I think. The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.
More coastal elite colleges. Expand your horizons.
I’m a huge fan of TFP. In response to so many comments about the educational background of these interns, it would be interesting to hear how TFP plans to prevent itself from becoming that thing which it rejects. That effort must be intentional. After all, I don’t believe the legacy media intended to become what it now is. But one day, far too late, we all woke up, like Bari, and discovered that the change had been occurring right before our eyes. With great success comes great challenges. I hope TFP doesn’t just become the plant from “Little Shop of Horrors.” Feed me, Seymour! 😉
It already has.