
How to Get a Monkey into Harvard
An Impractical Guide to Fooling the Top Colleges
Charles Monagan(Author)
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Will be published approx. on 25. October 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
96 pages
978-0-8021-7038-5 (ISBN)
Description
Millions of parents of teenagers everywhere are desperate to know: how do I get my irrefutably average child a spot at a top college, one that will ensure him years of cocktail party one-upmanship, a respectable portion of debt, and lots of huge car-window decals?
In this hilarious spoof on college-admissions guidebooks, Charles Monagan injects warmhearted humor into that American rite of passage: trying to get your lazy, not-as-smart-as-he-thinks-he-is, not-as-original-as-she-thinks-she-is teenagers into a fancy overpriced school with a big name so that they can eventually get a job and move out of your basement. From preconception strategies to the farce that is community service, Monagan's theories and suggestions are so outrageous they just might work.
Monagan's unorthodox techniques and manufactured wisdom include gems like:
?Marry your child's college counselor
?Proactively name your child (Rockefeller? Elihu?)
?Buying the SATs
In this hilarious spoof on college-admissions guidebooks, Charles Monagan injects warmhearted humor into that American rite of passage: trying to get your lazy, not-as-smart-as-he-thinks-he-is, not-as-original-as-she-thinks-she-is teenagers into a fancy overpriced school with a big name so that they can eventually get a job and move out of your basement. From preconception strategies to the farce that is community service, Monagan's theories and suggestions are so outrageous they just might work.
Monagan's unorthodox techniques and manufactured wisdom include gems like:
?Marry your child's college counselor
?Proactively name your child (Rockefeller? Elihu?)
?Buying the SATs
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 142 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
122 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8021-7038-5 (9780802170385)
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