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1) Admission
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Thirty-eight-year old Portia Nathan, a Princeton University admissions officer, must decide whether or not to confront the truth when a life-altering decision from her past resurfaces.
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"When a few ill advised moves put the Hawthorne family on a heedless collison course, Mother Nora is stretched to the limit between her family and her real-estate career. Who would have thought the Hawthornes, who supposedly have it all with great jobs, a beautifuil house in northern California, and three charming daughters would ever be knee deep in problems?" -- Back Cover.
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"A seat at the anchor desk of the most-watched morning show. Recognized by millions across the country, thanks in part to her flawless blond highlights and Botox-smoothed skin. An adoring husband and a Princeton-bound daughter. Peyton is that woman. She has it all. Until . . . Skye, her sister, is a stay-at-home mom living in a glitzy suburb of New York. She has degrees from all the right schools and can helicopter-parent with the best of them. But...
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"From the former Stanford University sailing coach, the first person sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit, about the sophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to the endless appetite for university fundraising, and about the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect"--
7) Acceptance
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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A comic chronicle of a year in the life in the college admissions cycle.
It's spring break of junior year and the college admissions hysteria is setting in. "AP" Harry (so named for the unprecedented number of advanced placement courses he has taken) and his mother take a detour from his first choice, Harvard, to visit Yates, a liberal arts school in the Northeast that is enjoying a surge in popularity as a result of a statistical error that landed...
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Complete Guide to Academic & College Planning for Teens
The College Bound Planner is your step-by-step comprehensive college planning guide to organize every step of your high school education while preparing smart goals for college.
Get your teens ready now! College may seem far away but thinking ahead and understanding how things work will help your teen prepare. In these uncertain times, parents and students are feeling even more anxious about...
9) Easy street
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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520L
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English
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"Rob's brother, Adam, has just been released from jail, and Rob hopes that things can go back to the way they used to be. But that's impossible. His brother has changed, and Rob has too. Adam invites Rob to go on a road trip to the city to check out a college he wants to attend. But Rob suspects that Adam hasn't asked him along just for the company. Adam still believes there's an easy way to get what he wants. And if Rob can't find a way to save Adam...
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Hoover Institution Press publication volume 528
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English
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With a journalist's eye for detail, Robert Zelnick looks at Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's key role in the controversial University of Michigan affirmative action cases of 2003, providing key background information, detailed descriptions of daily arguments, and an evaluation of the final rulings.
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"Harry wants nothing more than to write Hollywood screenplays. He knows the first step toward achieving that goal is winning a screenwriting competition that will seal his admission into the college of his dreams, so he's determined to spend his summer free of distractions--also known as boys--and finish his script. After last year, Harry is certain love only exists in the movies anyway. But then the cause of his first heartbreak, Grant, returns with...
13) Buffaloed
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English
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Desperate to escape her hometown of Buffalo and make enough money to attend her dream college, Peg decides to cheat the system after she is scammed by a debt collector.
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English
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An exposé of the Varsity Blues scandal reveals how an unscrupulous college counselor named Rick Singer preyed on the desperation of wealthy, upper class, insecure parents who sought to have their children admitted to elite colleges to maintain their own social status.
16) Admission
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
870L
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English
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"An affluent teen who thinks she is headed off to the college of her dreams, must reckon with the truth and possibly her own guilt when her mother is arrested in a college admissions bribery scandal" --
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