Acceptance : A Legendary Guidance Counselor

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.

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.

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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Acceptance : A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right Colleges--And Find Themselves

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