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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Satire Alert: The Onion vs. College Admissions

Does this kind of savagely incisive truth-telling even count as satire anymore?
Posted by Mad Minerva at 9:41 AM
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Labels: college admissions, cost of education, Higher Edpocalypse, higher education, satire alert, the Onion

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