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Becca Is still upset from all her rejections. She sends in a request to be put on the wailist. She really wants to attend a good college and ends up trying to pull one last trick. She wants to see if she can join cornell's class half way through the year. As she visits wesleyan, she find the campus gross and unattractive. I wonder it cornell will accept her half way.

I wonder where jordan will go. He wants prestige so i think that he will choose john hopkins.

The admissions season is over and they are sending out all of the acceptance and rejection letters, Back home, Julianna gets acceptance letters from all over From UChicago to Yale and Harvard. She visits chicago and finds that life is an absolute bore. she loves yale and finds wesleyan interesting. Jordan gets accepted to John Hopkins, NYU and wesleyan. Mig visits wesleyan and loves it due to its rich film program.

In the part, Mig is up to vote in the commitee. His essays are a bit informal but are well written. He is accepted on a note that he will add Diversity to the campus. Back in California, Ralph calls Shannon to notify her that Becca had been rejected and that they were to fixated on the weed.

The chapter first discusses the Interactions between elite private high schools and colleges. The couselors tell the colleges thier prime students and to look out for them. In this section, Becca Jannol comes up the committee. I wonder it the weed incident will severely affect her application

breezes hrough admissions and is accepted with ease. His essay was excellent and it particularly struck a chord with Ralph. In jordan's essay, he talked about X-men which particularly likes.

The admissions process continues. This time, the applications go on for their second readings. This time, Aggie Ramirez is given a Deny plus by the second reader, Greg. Tiffany Wangs was up for her second reading. This time by a man named Rod. THis time, she receives an Admit Minus and is ultimately waitlisted. Jordan

Another perplexing case that ralph came upon was the case of Aggie Ramirez. She was admitted on full scholarship to a prestigious all girls school. Her acedemics had been rocky with low grades and act scores. In addition, she had been overinvolved in school activities. She is also a minoriy. Ralph decides that it would be best to defer her for further discussion. I wonder it her race will push her into acceptance

In the end, Tiffany is rejected from wesleyan. However, she forgot to include a crucial part in her application of how she was impacted in a profound way on death row inmated that she wrote to in the club that she started

In this part of the book, two of the students that the book focused on have been deferred from thier top schools. This comes as wake up call for them. Meanwhile, ralph is starting to read applications. His first puzzling case was an asian girl named tiffany wang who was an underachiever in school with a solid SAT and essay. Due to the conflicting nature of these situations, I wonder if she will be accepted