"Karen Stabiner's GETTING IN [is] humorous (in a wry kind of way) but pointed and surprisingly engaging novel about parental and teen obsessiveness regarding the college application process in independent schools and the debilitating, distorting impact of it on kids and families. Must read for college-prep kids and their parents." --Patrick Basset, President, National Association of Independent Schools "A savvy insider's take on a high-stakes, cutthroat campaign--except it's not about getting into the White House, but about getting into the perfect college. Stabiner's sharp, witty tale is as essential as a good SAT prep course--but a hell of a lot more fun." --Arianna Huffington "Getting In takes an edgy, knowing look inside the lives and minds of love-crazed parents--galvanized equally by desperation and devotion--as they try with all their might to thrust their cherished children into the universities of their dreams." --Carolyn See, Making a Literary Life "Karen Stabiner has clearly been through the crazy circus that is college admissions, and lucky for the rest of us she took pitch-perfect notes. You will come away from her book reassured that all the other families of applicants are even loonier than yours--or reassured that you fit right in. What do you mean, this is fiction?" --Lisa Belkin, New York Times parenting writer (and hardy survivor of her son's college application process) Q: What does a parent need to survive the college application process? A. A sense of humor. B. A therapist on 24-hour call. C. A large bank balance. D. All of the above. Getting In is the roller-coaster story of five very different Los Angeles families united by a single obsession: acceptance at a top college, preferably one that makes their friends and neighbors green with envy. At an elite private school and a nearby public school, families devote themselves to getting their seniors into the perfect school--even if the odds are stacked against them, even if they can't afford the $50,000 annual price tag, even if the effort requires a level of deceit, and even if the object of all this attention wants to go somewhere else. Getting In is a delightfully smart comedy of class and entitlement, of love and ambition, set in a world where a fat envelope from a top school matters more than anything . . . almost.
Getting in the game I Dawn FitzGeraId.—1st ed. p. cm. “A Deborah Brodie book.” Summary: When everyone tries to get thirteen-year-old Joanna off the boys' ice hockey team, including Ben, her best friend since kindergarten, Jo resolves to ...
Lee, D. (2018) 'The government wants to stamp out unpaid internships? It could start with the offices of Tory MPs', New Statesman, 9 February, www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/ 02/unpaid-internships-conservatives-mps-government ...
Okay , but as you probably know , getting in means there's no turning back , even if your kid changes their mind about what or where they'd like to study . It also means you won't be able to compare various financial - aid packages .
The essential "secrets" to winning the competition for admissions to the college of your choosing written by the world's leading admissions coach and mentor, Rick Singer.
If you were captain of the quiz bowl team, student-body president, editor-in-chief of the yearbook, coordinator of the talent show, head tour guide for prospective students, lead cashier at the pharmacy, or even scheduler of deliveries ...
It started many years ago in February 1993 with my article, “Get in Touch with Your Inner Bitch,” published in Hysteria, the humor magazine for women. The magazine came out, a radio personality saw the article and called me for an ...
One of the most insightful books ever about “getting in” and what higher education has become, Who Gets In and Why not only provides an usually intimate look at how admissions decisions get made, but guides prospective students on how ...
This is an essential guide to cutting through the noise of the admissions process and gaining the confidence to forge one’s own path to success—in college and beyond.
In this uplifting book, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer explains the soul-nourishing meditation technique for making conscious contact with God, which the ancient masters have told us about.
You should list everything else in reverse chronological order , beginning with the most recent . You should also indicate how much time ( hours per week and weeks per year ) you spend on each activity . Remember , a school year is ...