When it came to college acceptance for his first-born child, Hank Herman-an average Dad with average hopes and dreams for his son's college career-imagined he could resist the urge to meddle, that he could allow his son to make decisions for himself. Feeling slightly smug and superior to the good parents he'd seen go berserk before, he vowed not to become controlling and obsessed.Flash-forward to the 2' x 3' "war board" Herman has created to organize and rate the 36 colleges or universities he's selected as "suitable" for his son. Note the lengths to which he goes to "market" his candidate/son as a scholar and an athlete. See the sports scrapbook he has naively constructed for the coaches who now, alas, only accept video clips. Funny, self-deprecating, and all-too-familiar to today's parents, Accept My Kid, Please! details one good father's battle with his worst side. A book for parents looking ahead to or back at their child's college application process, it is an amusingly accurate cautionary tale.
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"An eye-opening, often funny odyssey." -- Teacher Magazine January/February 2005
"The line between sanity and madness can be surprisingly thin...Herman explores the far edge of sanity in [this] memoir." -- New York Times 2/13/05
Enumerates the roller-coaster ride that getting a kid into school has become...Non-stop laughs." -- Chicago Tribune 1/2/05
With humor [Herman] describes the lengths [he] went to to market his child as a scholar and athlete." -- Westport News 12/31/04
"The line between sanity and madness can be surprisingly thin...Herman explores the far edge of sanity in [this] memoir." -- New York Times 2/13/05
Enumerates the roller-coaster ride that getting a kid into school has become...Non-stop laughs." -- Chicago Tribune 1/2/05
With humor [Herman] describes the lengths [he] went to to market his child as a scholar and athlete." -- Westport News 12/31/04
About the Author
The author of Super Hoops, a prize-winning series of basketball novels for kids, Hank Herman is also an award-winning humor writer. "The Home Team," his column in the Westport News, has taken several top honors from both the New England Press Association and the Connecticut Press Club. Herman's writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Outside, and Ladies Home Journal. He lives in Westport, Connecticut.
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I was hoping for something like "Little League Confidential" for the college admissions scene, which may have been setting myself up for disappointment. This was a generally pleasant but forgettable read, with only a few chuckles and no laugh out loud moments. Basically an extended version of the "college application nightmare" column that every feature columnist for every newspaper in America churns out at one time or another. There are much better things to spend $10.95 on -- many of them that last longer than the scant hour it takes to read this very short book.
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This is a truly fun read, whether your kids are not yet ready for college, in the looking and application process, or this is already well behind you. We can see a little of each of us in these hilarious blow-by-blow accounts of getting your kid into "the" college. Sit back and enjoy!
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This gem of a book came into my life at the right time -- just as I was hauling my high-school son on his first visits to college campuses. This book made me laugh while keeping the college search experience in perspective.
In addition to being a fun read, this book also is filled with nuggets of good advice for parents of high school students. I highly recommend it. Sally Hartman Norfolk, Virginia
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Accept My Kid, Early Decision, Playing the Athlete Card, Padding the Transcript, Deciding Where, The Marketing of the Candidate, Coach Diamond, University of Transylvania, Ivy League, The Interview, The Campus Tour, Arts Smarts, Move-In Day, Coach Blarney, Little League, The Second Son, Coach Fox, Bestport High School, Matt Herman, Long Neck Leader, New York, Coach Toasty, War Board, Memory University Browse Sample Pages:
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Accept My Kid, Early Decision, Playing the Athlete Card, Padding the Transcript, Deciding Where, The Marketing of the Candidate, Coach Diamond, University of Transylvania, Ivy League, The Interview, The Campus Tour, Arts Smarts, Move-In Day, Coach Blarney, Little League, The Second Son, Coach Fox, Bestport High School, Matt Herman, Long Neck Leader, New York, Coach Toasty, War Board, Memory University Browse Sample Pages:
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