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Acceptance book 

AVR author interview: David Marcus on Acceptance

From: Chris Goldstein
Length: 00:30:31

Journalist Dave Marcus follows an extraordinary college guidance counselor through the placement process in a NY suburb. Read the full description.
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Piece Description

Chris Goldstein interviews David Marcus for Active Voice Radio on the book Acceptance

from davidmarcus.com

Gwyeth Smith, known as Smitty, is a renowned guidance counselor who believes that getting into college should be a kid’s first great moment of self-discovery. In Acceptance, David L. Marcus, Pulitzer Prize–winning former education writer for U.S. News & World Report, spins an absorbing narrative of a year in the lives of Smitty and “his” kids.

At a diverse public school in Long Island, New York, Smitty works his unique magic on students’ applications and their lives, helping them find the right college by figuring out who they are, rather than focusing on what their test scores, grades, and finances reflect.

Loaded with advice that readers can apply to their own college searches, Acceptance is a book that thousands of students and their parents will find indispensable.

Broadcast History

KSFR 101.1FM January 2010

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