With the pathological eagerness of an honors student seeking extra credit, Susan Coll’s comic novel ACCEPTANCE pursues three high school seniors on their quest to land in their first-choice school. AP Harry, who commits to memory the admissions statistics of every Ivy League school, dreams of Harvard. Taylor Rockfeller, Harry’s troubled, mail-stealing neighbor, just wants to enroll at school that is both far from her social-climbing mother and equipped with private bathrooms. Maya Kaluantharana has set her sights on obscure liberal arts Yates College, while her parents fuss that she must follow in her older sister’s footsteps at MIT.

ACCEPTANCE finds the humor and the humanity in the feverish pursuit—by parent and student alike—of a spot at one of U.S. News & World Report’s top fifty schools. Writes Kurt Anderson, author of Heyday, “Having just sent one kid off to college and with a second now preparing to apply, I had shivers of recognition again and again as I read ACCEPTANCE. Fortunately, each shiver came along with its corresponding several smiles and chuckles. Susan Coll has written a dead-on satire that's also full of heart, which is a rare achievement.”

“Susan Coll could make hell fun—and she does.” —Marilyn Johnson, author of The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries

“Acceptance is A+ entertainment—witty, clever and unpretentious. Excellent reading for all, but a MUST READ for anyone with teenage children.” —Anita Shreve

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