ACCEPTANCE is the Perfect Summer Book for Admissions Addicts

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<p>Question: Can you please recommend an admissions book for my family (wife, me, possibly our 11th grade son) to read on vacation?</p>

<p>Answer: ACCEPTANCE by David L. Marcus it the perfect choice. I promise it won't feel like homework. Read my new review in CC's "Ask the Dean" <a href="http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/acceptance-is-the-perfect-summer-book-for-admissions-addicts.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.collegeconfidential.com/dean/archives/acceptance-is-the-perfect-summer-book-for-admissions-addicts.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>I recommend Admission Jean Hanff Korelitz, but with some reservations. It was a fun read (a bit of a page turner), BUT it is a bit of a chick lit, and it has two parts that are suggestive but by no means raunchy. It’s a flawed book, but I really enjoyed reading it. Here’s a link to the author reading the first several pages. [Jean</a> Hanff Korelitz | KQED Public Media for Northern CA](<a href=“The Writers' Block Archives | KQED Arts”>The Writers' Block Archives | KQED Arts)</p>

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<p>hmm…it seems like the main site is down</p>

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<p>Yeah, the main site isn’t coming up on my computer either.</p>

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<p>So this book is just recent?</p>

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<p>Yes, ACCEPTANCE is brand new … the official release date is this Thursday (July 23rd), I believe.</p>

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<p>Another book to possibly check out is Acceptance by Susan Coll, also a novel about college admissions. I actually thought this topic was about it, haha.</p>

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<p>I remember reading Hacking Harvard by Robin Wasserman during the admissions cycle. I thought it was cute.</p>

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<p>“The Price of Admission” by Daniel Golden.</p>

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<p>Privilege by Douthat, The Gatekeepers by Steinberg, 75 Biggest Myths about College Admissions by Israel. A book question finally brought me out of lurkdom!</p>

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<p>Ditto, The Gatekeepers. An absolutely enlightening book.</p>

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<p>Is one of the Acceptance books the same as the Lifetime movie?</p>

<p><a href=“Examiner is back - Examiner.com”>Examiner is back - Examiner.com;

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<p>A fun read: Accept My Kid, Please! by Hank Herman</p>

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<p>I read an excellent admissions book, that I can’t remember the name of, following several students from the Harvard-Westlake school in California. Ring a bell for anyone?</p>

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<p>Keilexandra-You may be thinking of The Gatekeepers, which I mentioned in my review. One of the key players in that book is from Harvard-Westlake. If you liked that book, you will surely enjoy this one, too.</p>

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<p>just started it today but it appears to be enlightening.
I definitely wish a guidance counselor with such knowledge and connections worked at my school.</p>

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<p>^^ Ah! I loved THE GATEKEEPERS, but for some reason I had associated Harvard Westlake with not-Steinberg. Go figure.</p>

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<p>I just finished “Accepted”–it is a quick read.</p>

<p>On the whole, positive, but I wish the author would have spent more time on the issue of PAYING for college rather than gettiing in. For example, a couple of twins in the book get into Tulane and Vanderbilt and hardly a word is said on how the family plans to pay.</p>

<p>Another thing that bothered me is that a school district that has only 109 seniors in its graduating class can afford to pay multiple guidance counselors (the main one is paid $150K/yr), subscribe to Naviance, and send a counselor to a NACAC conference in Texas.
I doubt that most public school districts can do this. My kids’ public school has nearly 3000 students and let’s just say the counselor/student ratio is not as favorable.</p>

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<p>What the heck is an ‘admissions addict’?</p>

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<p>who would want to be or who is an admissions addict?</p>