Acceptance
Coll, Susan
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
A hilarious, insightful chronicle of one year in the life of the college admissions process seen through the eyes of three ambitious students, their parents, and one beleaguered admissions officer. With the empathy of Tom Perrotta and the engaging candor of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, Susan Coll charts the students' progress from month-to-month and reveals every dimension of wild competition among the families gunning for the top spots in the American meritocracy.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Bristles with enough wit and ambition to earn honors."--Entertainment Weekly
"If your teen is among the thousands of high school seniors anxiously awaiting their college acceptance letters, Coll's witty satire of the admissions process will provide both of you with some much-needed comic relief."--Life magazine
"Hilarious and dismaying."--George F. Will, Newsweek
"Coll's tale of the harrowing days of college admission is spot-on."--People
"Skillfully executed . . . a winning social comedy . . . Captures the reasoned irrationality of teens . . . It will prove a winning combination for readers who are in the throes of the rejection letter hype."--USA Today
"Coll neatly captures the irony and humor of an era in which colleges peddle to junior high kids and Saturdays are all about SAT prep."--The Christian Science Monitor
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0312426968
ISBN(13-digit): 9780312426965
Dewey Decimal: 813
Book Publisher: St Martins Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 303
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