What passages from “Want to Get into College? Learn to Fail” best help you understand the author’s purpose for writing the text? Education agents in other countries are known to falsify student transcripts, assuming that an outstanding GPA is the ticket to admission.

We get the most excited when we read an application that seems real. It’s so rare to hear stories of defeat and triumph that when we do, we cheer.

Students are usually in shock when I chuckle and tell them I never expect perfection. In fact, I prefer they not project it in their college applications.

The ability to bounce back is a fundamental life skill students have to learn on their own.

Titinius.] why didst thou send me forth, brave cassius? did i not meet thy friends, and did not they put on my brows this wreath of victory, and bid me give it thee? didst thou not hear their shouts? alas, thou hast misconstrued everything! but hold thee, take this garland on thy brow. thy brutus bid me give it thee, and i will do his bidding. brutus, come apace, and see how i regarded caius cassius. by your leave, gods,—this is a roman’s part: come, cassius’ sword, and find titinius’ heart. which theme is best expressed by the text evidence in the excerpt? a. power corrupts those who achieve it. b victory has a high cost for both sides of a conflict. c. loyalty to one's superior is more important than life. d.people in power cannot recognize success.