By Dana GlaserTo the Class of 2009: Every year in May, like the Chronicle geek that I am, I look forward to reading the senior columns. For those of you not quite as conscientious about it as I am, they...

By Michael Vann As a competitive tennis player vying for a spot on a Division I team, the recruiting process began for me in ninth grade when I began receiving letters from about 30 colleges with mainly...