For NBC Pages, ‘Please Follow Me’ Is a Fervent Wish - NYTimes.com

IN FIVE YEARS, WE'LL EITHER ALL BE WORKING FOR HIM ... OR BE DEAD BY HIS HAND: The New York Times goes to the real 30 Rock to meet with NBC's pages, a program so selective and prestigious that 7,000 people apply for 60 to 85 slots each year. (Yale Law School, by way of comparison, has about half as many applicants for three times as many slots.)