Acceptance

The desperate GPA pinching and frentic world of college admissions is savagely satirized in Susan Coll's third novel "Acceptance," a comic look at the hysteria that strikes high-schoolers and parents when they make a play for the Ivy Leagues. The novel follow AP Harry while visiting the ramshackled grounds of Yates University, a small liberal arts school enjoying a surge of popularity after being noted in U.S. News & World Report's list of top collges. Here Harry runsinto two classmates, who along with their parents, prepare to weather the storm of senior year, all while realizing that college may be more about self-discovery than receiving an acceptance letter.