In a Next Avenue article, writer Carol Orsborn, who recently signed up for Medicare, said that by the time she made her final decisions about which coverage to take, she had received enough direct mail solicitations to fill six hanging folders with hundreds of brochures.

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But an article in the sports section of a Philadelphia newspaper entitled, College Commitments, listing local athletes who had signed letters of intent to compete in athletics at Division I colleges, highlights the fact that athletics can be a game changer when it comes to getting admitted to elite colleges.

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