That's one great article. The woman is undoubtedly brilliant and, more important, energetic and imaginative. With great looking kids. OK, enough.
One thing that particularly struck home:
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Looking back, I wonder whatever possessed the admissions staff at Washington University in St. Louis to look at my SAT scores and overlook everything else, but I will be forever grateful that they did. I doubt many universities would admit a student like me today, particularly not at age 16.
As my oldest granddaughter was applying for college (she is a freshman, well first year but classified as a sophomore because of AP, at Syracuse University in NY) I realized that if my 1950s persona had been transported to the modern era, there is no way I would have gotten in to any decent college.
I found her attitude just wonderful.