Man, these kids are really smart, aren’t they?” Richard Nesbitt ’74 asks quietly, with a gentle shake of the head. Sitting at a conference table in Bascom House, the Williams admission director is surrounded by his staff, but he’s more or less talking to himself, because the answer is abundantly clear. He utters the question with as much dismay as delight, since he knows that being smart—incredibly smart—is not enough to get some very talented young people into Williams these days.