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Also by Karen Stabiner:

Getting In, March 2010
Paperback
The Empty Nest, May 2007
Hardcover

Getting In
Karen Stabiner

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 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.

Comments

7 comments posted.

Re: Getting In

I will have to deal with this in about 3 yrs.... scary, lol
(Brandy Blake 1:22pm May 13, 2010)

Insane!!!
(Mary Preston 11:12pm May 13, 2010)

Please enter me in the contest! The subject matter is a little too deep for me!
(Brenda Rupp 11:13pm May 13, 2010)

My first one to go to callage is going to be senior next year so we will be starting all that fun stuff year and I'm not looking forward to it at all but I'm sure it will be worth it in the long run.
(Vickie Hightower 11:32pm May 13, 2010)

My daughter has worked in college
admissions for a little over 10 years
now. First at a state university and
now at a community college. Oddly
enough the community college is a
more mature and professional place.
Knowing some of her experiences, I
am sure no matter what you have in
your book isn't far from the truth.
In addition, I remember our trips
looking for colleges when she was a
senior. I'm sure I'm in there too.
This sounds like a book she would
appreciate.
(Patricia Barraclough 12:04pm May 14, 2010)

All sorts of funny things happen at college. I transferred schools and needed only one semester to have a minor in French. When I was registering at my new college the guy told me they didn't teach French, that everyone there took Spanish. Finally he said he would take my name and it they had enough to sign up, they would open a French class. Luckily they did.
(Gladys Paradowski 12:09pm May 14, 2010)

Gladts' comment about transfer students reminded me of one of my pet peeves. I had students who only needed one class (or one sememster) and for various reasons transferred closer home. Our institution would accept them and THEN tell them that they couldn't take that one class or semester until they fulfilled OUR prerequisits. It took one student that I knew about two additional years of classwork before she could take the one she needed!
(Karin Tillotson 8:58am May 14, 2010)