Acceptance: A Novel

Acceptance is a satire of Americas overachievers a novel set over one year in the college application process when students and parents surrender their evenings their weekends and their sanity to the race for admission. Maya Taylor and AP Harry (so named for all the advanced placement courses under his belt) are high school students in a Washington D.C. suburb called Verona each gunning for admission to the most prestigious colleges. Olivia is an overworked admissions officer under siege from applications and every kind of desperate appeal. The application process threatens to overrun all of their lives and Acceptance follows each characters struggle for their sanity against the relentless pressure of competition.