Hacking Harvard

Getting in. SATs, ACTs, AP courses, endless extracurricular activities and community service. Maintain your GPA. Don't screw up on your interview and you might get in. Maybe.

It's senior year, pressure is on, and so is the hack.

The challenge: get a totally unsuitable candidate in to Harvard. The players: four geeks, two gamblers, one slime and the totally unsuitable applicant. The stakes aren't too high - just a few bucks, college entrance, and of course, their futures.

Neatly told. A bit overly reminiscent of a made-for-TV movie, but readable.

Wonderful YA for the high achievers. Compelling story, well-delineated characters, excellent background about breaking into the Ivy League. Highly recommended.

I read all 336/336 pages even though it bored the tears out of my eyes, but I still finished it. This book is about three boys who disagree with the college admissions system decide to hack the Harvard database and get the most unqualified person to be accepted into the school. The three boys also made a bet that puts them at a state that there is no way they could turn back.

I think that out of the three boys, Schwarz is my favorite character. He’s the guy that’s the super nerd with glasses that is super good with computers and follows everyone around. He has already gotten into Harvard and is helping his friends, who made him, hack the schools admissions system. During the whole experience, he falls in love with a girl and show more following the footsteps of the person they are trying to get into Harvard, tries to act ‘gangstah’ to prove his ‘inner manliness’. In the end he goes back to being his dorky self again which is nice to see, with a bigger self-esteem.

I think I can relate to many things in this book for example why the boys thought the college admissions were unfair. Many of my friends, whom either are seniors trying to get into college or freshman this year in college whom were trying to get into college last year have stressed so much about the college admission that I can almost imagine what is going to be like I a couple of years. Another thought, though I have never hacked into anything before I understand how embarrassing it is to give in to a bet and the boys would never had done that, neither did the boys.

I thought that this story had a good enough plot but the way it was write just bored the daylight out of me. Usually books takes me about 2 or 3 days but this book took me about 3 weeks to read.

I don’t really recommend this book unless you like boring books that try to act ‘teenagerish’ and think they know what all of the high schooler's in our community think. show less

Hacking Harvard by Robin Wasserman is about 3 guys who make a bet that they can get a huge loser into Harvard. They are not just doing this for the money, but because they don’t like the system. They hit some obstacles like problems with who’s spying on them for the guy they made a deal with.



This book reminds me of Little Brother because some kids fight the government , or in this case, the school system by hacking it.

I'd forgotten I'd even read this book. 5 visits to the book store and I was done (nope, never actually bought it). I just remember it being kind of...meh. Not bad, just forgettable.

Currently I'm reading [b:The Waking Dark|17061489|The Waking Dark|Robin Wasserman|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1364964459s/17061489.jpg|23398561] by her. So far, it's a lot better.

Three boys, Eric, Max and Schwarz, and a girl, Lex, decide to pull the perfect hack and get a complete deadbeat dud of a slacker admitted to Harvard. The stakes increase to the point of no return when they bet more than they can afford to lose, that they can do it. Didn't put it in a middle school library due to language, I think, but can't remember.

Fun caper about hacking into Harvard's computer system.