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Title: poor grammar and syntax makes information seem dubious
Review: This book is interesting but frustrating. It explains in excruciating detail the admissions process at ONE Ivy League school (Dartmouth), and purports to offer this as a general guide to admissions at the ten or fifteen most selective colleges in the country. It is questionable whether (a) any such analogy is really valid and (b) this is a true glimpse of even Dartmouth's process. Ms Hernandez's biography states that she has an advanced degree in English but you could never tell that from her grammar and syntax. Even my 17-year old son threw down the book in disgust at the sentence structure and the childish prose.I know that many parents view this as the Bible of admissions books, but I think it is more like the Apocrypha or the Book of Mormon--a pretender or a fake, or, at best, an adjunct to more serious and intelligent books such as Bill Paul's Getting In and Bill Mayher's book on the admissions process.
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