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Follows five Ocean Heights high seniors and their parents in Los Angeles as they navigate the obstacle course that is college admissions
Voice
March 2010
On Sale: March 16, 2010
416 pages
ISBN: 1401322468
EAN: 9781401322465
Paperback
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Young Adult Contemporary
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 schoolβeven if the odds are stacked against them, even if they canβt 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.
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