So Bad I Thought Maybe It Was In Jest
This book offers such a neurotic, manipulative, parentally controlled view of college admissions that I thought at times it was a parody. The author believes that parents should maintain individual files to track high school students' work in their classes and should suck up to guidance counselors with home-baked cookies and manipulate teachers with veiled threats. There is virtually no role for authenticity of student in this book--kids are commodities. It's not even clear WHY she thinks people should go to such lengths to get into these colleges....credentials are all. Just appalling.