How to Get Into a College

i was nervous when i went away to college. Although i had done well on standardized exams, i never really sat in a corregular classroom and faced inflexible dead lines. Ten years later I taught my first semester of university classes at the college of william and mary in virg na. The students in my literature classes had high grades, high test scores, lots of extra curricular credits. They couldn't identify nouns and verbs or tell me what the difference was. This college was small and non exclusive, but the problem is universal.