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The Applicants


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Groomed for a place at a Big Name School since their obsessed, status-conscious helicopter parents passed out cigars at the Stockstill General Hospital Neonatal Unit, the privileged students of Pembrocton College Preparatory are ratcheting up the stakes in the race to get into the nation's most prestigious colleges. The PCP juniors are gloating, jubilant at the rumor that the valedictorian presumptive has received a B on her report card, a grade that will relegate her to in-state hell. Her heir apparent, a three-generation Yale legacy, is the sole mourner at the demise of her future-if only because her thoughtless academic lapse is going to derail his plans to attend MIT. Across town, in the graffiti-covered halls of Stockstill High School, the students slink to class, praying that they arrive without a knife wound-and dream of ivy-covered walls. And with the help of a take-no-prisoners principal and an enterprising parent, the students at SHS dare to encroach shamelessly on territory normally reserved for their wealthy private school rivals. ‪Join the fray as a memorable cast of characters engages in the latest rage in extracurricular activities: college admissions as a blood sport. ‬ ‪Laugh out loud funny, The Applicants lampoons the heights we scale-and the depths to which we sink-to get into the "right" college. ‬
About the Author: Ari Morgan is just one of the many alter egos that inhabit the psyches of a mother-daughter team that has devoted the better part of their lives (and much of their sanity) to guiding college-bound students through the admissions process. Despite her best efforts, Ari has not managed to solve the greatest of life's mysteries: "What is it about the college admissions process that renders ordinarily intelligent adults and their offspring stark raving mad?" An unrepentant grammarian, Ari spends her leisure time seeking out and destroying extraneous apostrophes, inserting Oxford commas, and otherwise defending the English language against diction errors, dangling modifiers, and syntactic lapses. Her battle cry: "Proper punctuation saves lives!" Daughter lives in Phoenix with her long-suffering partner and two wretched cats. Mom lives in Phoenix with her long-suffering, wretched husband. Ari (and her alter egos) can be reached at arimorganbooks@gmail.com.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781500459987
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 296
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 449 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1500459984
  • Publisher Date: 02 Jul 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 16 mm
  • Width: 152 mm

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