I'm going to college---not you!: surviving the college search with your child

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part 1. Where it All Begins

An Unsentimental Education / Neal Pollack

A Cautionary Tale / Christine VanDevelde

Personal Statement / Wendy MacLeod

Part 2. From the Outsiders

How to Get into College Without Really Trying / Gail Hudson

The Age of Reasons / Joe Queenan

Application Madness / Anne C. Roark

A Piece of Cake / Jan Brogan

Part 3. From the Insiders

Impersonating Wallpaper: The Dean's Daughter Speaks / Jennifer Delahunty / Emma Britz

A Life of Too Much / Lisa Gates

The Kids Are Alright: (with Apologies to the Who) / Debra Shaver

Let It/Them Be: (with or without Apologies to the Beatles), or How Not to Spend Your Child's Summer Vacation / Katherine Sillin

Part 4. From a Mother's Perspective

The Deep Pool / Anna Quindlen

When Love Gets in the Way / Jane Hamilton

Hooked / Laurie Kutchins

Our Quixotic Quests for Utopia U / Anna Duke Reach

Part 5. From a Father's Perspective

Market Lambs and Chaos Warriors / Dan Laskin

Flowers Will Grow / Sean Callaway

The Worst of Times, the Best of Times: The Scholar-Athlete Applies to College / David Latt

From the Belly of the Whale / David H. Lynn

Where the Chips Fall / Scott Sadil

Part 6. Road Trippin'

The Most Difficult year to Get into College in the History of the World: Excerpts from "The Neurotic Parent" Blog the Neurotic Parent

Laundry, Lost Luggage, and Lord of the Rings / Lisa K. Winkler

Sound Tracks / Joy Horowitz

Part 7. A User's Guide for Parents

Love in the Time of College Angst / S.X. Rosenstock

Wait Outside / Sarah Kahrl

Sophie, Real and Imagined / Ellen Waterston

T-minus Thirteen Minutes and Forty-one Seconds / Steve Thomas

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