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So I was made to read this book by my father who has fallen in love with it and the message that it preaches (basically, you can get a good education anywhere, you don't have to get into the Ivy League/ Stanford to succeed.) My reading of it is my Father's Day present to him, so it's not like this is a book that I would normally pick up. That being said, it's a good book. It examines a culture I'm definitely exposed to, as I attend a prep school, and shows that cultures facts that render it fundamentally incorrect. It's a good book, a reassuring book, and I'm glad that I read it, I suppose.
This book is about the mania and hysteria (mostly by middle-high income families) around college admissions and the fixations on particular schools.
IN DEPTH DISCUSSION!!!!!!!!!
I don't have a lot to say, this is affirming but I really only read it because my dad wanted me to. John Green talks about his college experience, so that was really entertaining for those two pages or so.
It also says some important things about rejection, I think, and how important that is. I'm scared about myself and my ability to come back from a very intense rejection, when I was really passionate about the thing that I got rejected from, because I've not experienced that up to this point and I'm not sure of my emotional fortitude.
Another thing is in the book they talk about a school that posts all of the matriculations from that school onto their website, which is the exact same thing that happens in my school. Also, I have heard multiple students complain about how they don't think that our college counselors don't really care about them and are encouraging them to go to prestigious colleges because it reflects well on my school. One girl in particular got into Stanford but was really attracted to ASU, even though it has a party school reputation. The college counselor was actively recommending against ASU, but not for any real reasons, but, in the student's estimation, because Stanford looks better.
That is all to say that this mania is very real and something I personally will have lots of exposure to, I presume, my junior and senior years.
Overall, I'd say this is worth a read, especially for Juniors/ Seniors in high school AND their parents. Parents tend to put more emphasis on this stuff than kids do, at least from my experience.
FFFFIIIIIIINNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!
Good to have read it, but nothing spectacular: 89%
This book is about the mania and hysteria (mostly by middle-high income families) around college admissions and the fixations on particular schools.
IN DEPTH DISCUSSION!!!!!!!!!
I don't have a lot to say, this is affirming but I really only read it because my dad wanted me to. John Green talks about his college experience, so that was really entertaining for those two pages or so.
It also says some important things about rejection, I think, and how important that is. I'm scared about myself and my ability to come back from a very intense rejection, when I was really passionate about the thing that I got rejected from, because I've not experienced that up to this point and I'm not sure of my emotional fortitude.
Another thing is in the book they talk about a school that posts all of the matriculations from that school onto their website, which is the exact same thing that happens in my school. Also, I have heard multiple students complain about how they don't think that our college counselors don't really care about them and are encouraging them to go to prestigious colleges because it reflects well on my school. One girl in particular got into Stanford but was really attracted to ASU, even though it has a party school reputation. The college counselor was actively recommending against ASU, but not for any real reasons, but, in the student's estimation, because Stanford looks better.
That is all to say that this mania is very real and something I personally will have lots of exposure to, I presume, my junior and senior years.
Overall, I'd say this is worth a read, especially for Juniors/ Seniors in high school AND their parents. Parents tend to put more emphasis on this stuff than kids do, at least from my experience.
FFFFIIIIIIINNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!
Good to have read it, but nothing spectacular: 89%