This book is incredibly realistic - anyone who tries to argue that parts of it were staged for the author's benefit hasn't spent any time in an American public school in the past fifteen years. Students like this go sleepless in HS halls every day. They have so much misplaced motivation and while I can only commend them for their accomplishments, I wish they had spent more time on themselves during the process of finding the perfect university. ( )

I found this book very sad because it was so real. I hope we can help students break away from the grind. ( )