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The Admissions brilliantly captures the frazzled pressure cooker of modern life as a apparently perfect family comes undone by a few desperate procedures, long-buried secrets - and school applications! The Hawthorne family has it all. Great jobs, a lovely house in another of the most affluent regions of Northern California, and three wonderful kids with properly straight teeth. And comes their eldest daughter's mature year of senior high school.... Firstborn Angela Hawthorne is a straight-A university student and star athlete with extracurricular activities coming out of her ears and a school application that isn't going to create itself. She's arranged her places on Harvard, her father's alma mater, and, just like a dog with a chew toy, Angela won't let up until she's basking in crimson-colored glory. Except her category list as valedictorian is under assault, she's suddenly getting rid of her advantage at cross-country, and she can't help but daydream about the cute baseball player in English class. Of course Angela knows the time placed into her schoolgirl crush would be better spent creating a subject on her behalf term paper - which, along with her school essay and community service hours, has a quickly approaching deadline. Angela's mom, Nora, is in the same way extended to the limit, juggling parent-teacher conferences, carpool, and a real estate career where she suits the mega-rich and super-picky purchasers and vendors of the Bay Area. The youngest little princess, Maya, still can't read at age eight; the middle child, Cecily, is no longer the happy-go-lucky child she was previously; and the dad, Gabe, seems oblivious to the mounting pressures at home just because a devastating key of his own might be shown. A couple of ill-advised moves position the Hawthorne family over a heedless collision course that's identical parts achingly real and delightfully screwball.
