The Pressure of College Admissions Meets TikTok

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 12, 2023

Jay Caspian Kang, staff writer for The New Yorker, documentary film director, and the author of The Loneliest Americans (Crown, 2021), offers thoughts about pressure, rejection and teen unhappiness in the context of college admissions in the TikTok age.

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