{"id":61127,"date":"2026-05-07T21:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/07\/opinion-forget-dream-schools-heres-how-the-smartest-students-choose-a-college-the-washington-post\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:39:19","slug":"opinion-forget-dream-schools-heres-how-the-smartest-students-choose-a-college-the-washington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/05\/07\/opinion-forget-dream-schools-heres-how-the-smartest-students-choose-a-college-the-washington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Forget dream schools. Here\u2019s how the smartest students choose a college. &#8211; The Washington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMioAFBVV95cUxObENZUUZIaFJCSHAwUVBueWRNbTZOQ1hPeG9UR21tVkk1T2NyUnMzUlh6WEk1X3ZDOHl0SVI1YkM0M2hFWXlZMHQtSzRBUkpIZWtKaFVsTDFDWTJTRE9XNmlFeE9ad3lydFV4WkF0RDBfb2xRRnpoWUNneG9WX3dyWGVUSXh2S0tfYUFaeHN5WEpKSjdUVmd4eWNNdGFDVVEw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Opinion | Forget dream schools. Here\u2019s how the smartest students choose a college.<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">The Washington Post<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion | Forget dream schools. Here\u2019s how the smartest students choose a college.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Post<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}