With the human spirit of Tom Perrotta and the engaging honesty of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep , Susan Coll reveals the frantic world of college admissions, where kids recalibrate their GPAs based on daily quizzes, families relocate to enhance the chance for Ivy League slots, and everyone is looking for the formula for admittance.
Meanwhile, Yates admissions officer Olivia Sheraton sifts through applications looking for something-anything-to distinguish one applicant from the next. For all, the price of admission requires compromise; for a few, the ordeal blossoms into an unexpected journey of discovery. July 31, Frankly, Admission with its focus on Yale admission officer Portia is the better book Acceptance is engrossing in many ways, but ultimately fails because it focuses on far too many char [ Anna 25 4 12 09 Acceptance, by Susan Coll So when I described this yesterday as a silly kind of modern chick lit book, I was totally wrong I was led astray by the colorful cover, upper middle class subject matter, and female author Oops.
Anyway, the most compelling part of this book, which tells the story of three high school seniors navigating college admissions, was the fact that I was dying to know where they ended up going to school It was like being in a time warp back to my own seventeen hood.
Emily I didn t really enjoy this book My grandparents gave it to me as a birthday present the year I applied to college, as a lighthearted segue into the college application process I guess I expected this book to be funnier than it actually was I understand that it s supposed to be satire, but the truth is it kind of wasn t I felt like the characters, especially AP Harry, were not nearly as exaggerated as the author probably thought I could see a glimpse of myself, and of many of my peers, in AP Harr [ Pauline I found this to be quite hilarious It s a slightly exaggerated telling of the hassles and worries that accompany parents and students during the years that lead up to applying for college I say it is slightly exaggerated due to my own experiences since they were no where near as stressful as depicted in the book However, I would not be surprised if there were a decent amount of people who went through exactly what Harry, Taylor and Maya went through for their college applications It would surpri [ Rebecca I really don t know why I picked this book up I lamely watching the Lifetime movie based on this book a few weeks back and as always I always get sucked into college y based stories And while the movie pretty much sucked, I was like, as always, maybe the book will be better Yeah it wasn t The movie did a really good job representing the book All in all, not really much happened The book was like one long description of characters and situations, but nothing really meshed Essentially the story is [ Christina Randomly picked this off the shelf at the library mostly curious because the author lives in a DC suburb and because I suspect I ll be able to identify with being a college admission obsessed high school student ETA I d give it two and a half stars, but rounded up to three because two feels too harsh This novel follows 3 students at a competitive high school in a DC suburb and how they deal with the various pressures surrounding college applications It made me grateful to have grown up in Seattl [ Lemon I enjoyed reading this book Every month was full of excitement view spoiler This book was all about the three High School Seniors who are applying for their college applications Taylor, daughter of Nina Rockefeller, who lied to her mother when she got a D in tech ed While AP Harry or simply Harry, a very intelligent student, who loves Mathematics He is the son of Grace Lou And Maya or Mahamaya who comes from a very rich family She couldn t afford to keep missing classes just to apply on differen [ Erin I liked the idea of this book, but I found the writing incredibly boring It really did illustrate however the giant rip off that college has become Colleges are no longer searching to attract the best and brightestw it s the richest, biggest donors, most connected and ethnically diverse It also showed the silliness of the people pursuing the most test scores and one mom who although she admitted to herself that her middle class white son had no chance in hell of getting into Harvard, she calls h [ Wendy This was pretty good I agree with a lot of the reviews that say it s sort of shallow and paper doll ish, but I think that was intentional All of the admissions stuff rang true from my own experience ten years ago, as well as the time I spent working in the Carleton admissions office as a student I could almost keep reading this book forever it s not really a re reader, but I d be happy to start over with a new class of kids if it was a blog, I d read it every day One point of confusion, if someo [ K As Acceptance opens, AP Harry so named for the unprecedented number of AP courses he s taken and his mother take a detour from his first choice, Harvard, to visit Yates University, a small liberal arts school that s enjoying a surge in popularity thanks to a statistical error that landed it on U.
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