"One night while rooting through the recycling bin for magazines, I found all the confidential Ph.D. applicant files for the biology department at an Ivy League university from the years 1965-1975. Stapled to many of the yellowed documents were photographs of the prospective students. I tore through the folders and rescued every portrait I could find. Only later did I realize I had to publish them...” Jesse Reklaw's Applicant is priceless timebomb of pop culture, serving up a compelling and secret look into an impossibly lost era.