Getting In by Karen Stabiner is a novel about kids that go to a lovely college prepatory school in California and are bound for greatness no matter where they go.  In it's first 100 pages I've already met four kids:

Lauren: The girl who's trying so hard to get into the school of her desires, Northwestern, but won't get it because of her averageness and lack of connection

Bradley Preston IV: Basically the poor little rich boy who's a shoe-in for Harvard, but would rather pursue his architectural dreams.

Katie: The girls who's parents have worked their behinds off to get both her and her brother the best education at Williams, but she'd rather go to Yale.

Chloe: Lauren's best friend who used to go to prep school with the three above, but now goes to Oceanview Heights public high school because of her parents divorce.

Liz: Chloe's math tutor at Oceanview Heights who is bound to be the one public school kid who kids into one of the Ivy's.

Finally, the college counselor Ted, who's the top man at getting all of these prep school kids into college and their acceptances to the Ivies along with other grreat schools like Northwestern and Williams are what he controls.

So getting through the first 100 pages of this book was difficult. Not the reading itself, but the content is constantly reminding me of stuff I need to get done. Higher score on the SAT, subject tests, APs, National Merit, etc. And it just stresses me out along with the characters in that sense.

So far, it's looking good. It's one of those books where the point of view switches in between a whole bunch of characters, which is normally alright and easy to keep track of, except this time for me it's hard for me to remember which girl is which. Because they're all whiny in a sense and they all want to be annoying apparently.

Brad is driving me nuts. It's so annoying when people say: "UGH. I can't believe I'm good enough to practically walk into Harvard University anytime I want to enroll. I don't want to go there." He's really hard for me to sympathize with at the moment. However, I feel Lauren's pain. She's being prevented from where she wants to go by one point in what seems to be in every score, SAT, National Merit, etc. And she won't get into schools because of legacies like Brad, who've had their names down for these school since birth. Katie I also understand because my parents think that UGA is the perfect option for me, which in a sense it is, like Williams seems to be for her, but I want a challenge, I want to get out of my comfort zone and so does Katie. (Also I think her name is Katherine.) But that's all at the moment.