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Preface: One More Year | p. vii |
Author's Note: Yale Loves Me; Yale Loves Me Not | p. xiv |
Cast of Characters | p. xix |
The First Day of the Rest of Your Life | p. 1 |
Who Am I? | p. 9 |
BWRK | p. 17 |
"When Everybody Is Special, Nobody is Special" | p. 25 |
"You're Lost Before You've Started" | p. 35 |
Playing School | p. 41 |
The Admissions Industrial Complex | p. 49 |
"Is Donating Blood an Extracurricular?" | p. 57 |
Regular Kids from the Suburbs | p. 67 |
Parenting the Parents | p. 79 |
Strategizing | p. 89 |
The GPA Game | p. 99 |
"We're Looking for the X Factor" | p. 109 |
Essay Therapy | p. 115 |
"My Whole Life Is in That Folder" | p. 127 |
Accepted | p. 135 |
Shopping for Riana | p. 143 |
"I'm Kicking it Up" | p. 149 |
"Columbia Didn't Reject Me, I Rejected Columbia" | p. 155 |
Kerplunking | p. 161 |
"She Would've Been a Slam Dunk" | p. 167 |
Apped-Out | p. 175 |
It Takes a Village to Write an Essay | p. 187 |
The $250,000 Question | p. 195 |
"It's About Growing Up" | p. 203 |
The Month of Indecision | p. 211 |
"It's About the Kids" | p. 223 |
College Student | p. 227 |
Epilogue | p. 229 |
About the Book | p. 235 |
Overlooked Gems | p. 238 |
Tip Sheet | p. 240 |
Finding the Right Fit | p. 247 |
Acknowledgments | p. 249 |
Sources | p. 252 |
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