Confessions of a High School Word Nerd : Increase Your SAT Verbal Score While Laughing Your Gluteus Off

Effortlessly acquire an SAT vocabulary through hilarious high school essaysEvery year, 9 million American students expend large amounts of time and energy preparing for proficiency and entrance exams like the SAT, ACT, PSAT, and SSAT with a heap of vocabulary flash cards and a fat volume of repetitive practice tests. Each one of them, along with their parents and teachers, wishes that there was a less painful way to prepare for test day. There is, and this book is the solution: a collection of ten well-written, entertaining essays by recent college-graduates-turned-writers that honestly and amusingly recount wild, traumatizing, and hilarious high-school events, using common SAT words as a study tool. (*gluteus: any of the large muscles of the buttocks; esp: gluteus maximus)

Arianne Cohen, a 2003 Harvard graduate, is the author of Help, It-'s Broken!: The Fix- It Bible for the Repair-Impaired. She writes a weekly column for AM NewYork, and her articles have appeared in Life and the New York Times.
Colleen Kinder is a 2003 Yale graduate and the author of the current campus bestseller Delaying the Real World: A Twentysomething-'s Guide to Seeking Adventure. She attends the University of Iowa-'s MFA program in creative nonfiction.