Acceptance : A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right Colleges--And Find Themselves
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9780143117643
- ISBN10:
0143117645
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 2010-06-29
- Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Summary
A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist spends a year with a legendary high-school guidance counselor, who gets kids into the right colleges by focusing on self-discovery rather than test scores, grades, and the other traditional tools of the trade.
Author Biography
David L. Marcus is the author of What It Takes to Pull Me Through, a look at the secret lives of teenagers. He has been an education writer and foreign correspondent at U.S. News & World Report, The Boston Globe, Miami Herald, and Dallas Morning News. He lives in Northport, New York.
Table of Contents
| 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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