The Neurotic Parent’s Guide to College Admissions
"Laugh-out-loud funny... this book is going to be a huge success!"
— Teen Vogue
"It's hilarious!"
— Madeleine Brand, KPCC/NPR
"Add me to the long list of J.D. Rothman fans."
— Jackie Burrell, About.com
"Made us laugh out loud... Rothman is an acute observer of the road to the fat envelope."
— Admission Now
"Playful... quirky... belly-busting... full of funny statistics and oddities."
— National Association of College Admissions Counselors
The Facts
• Published March 1, 2012
• 256 pages, softcover, two-color, with illustrations
• ISBN 978-0-9834494-1.5; e-book ISBN 978-0-9834594-2-2
• $16.95 retail
Media: To interview the author or find out more about The Neurotic Parent and the publicity tour, contact publicist Deb Shapiro here
Bloggers: If you'd like digital galleys for review, find out more here
Booksellers and other retailers: To order, contact us
Events: Come meet the author at one of these events!
To read the blog that started it all, go to The Neurotic Parent.
Press Room
Here's what people are saying about the Neurotic Parent:
— A terrific interview with Madeleine Brand on KPCC, Southern California's leading NPR station
— Guest post on the Washington Post's College Inc.
— An interview on the New York Times's college site
— A rave review from St. Louis Magazine
— High praise from Jackie Burrell of About.com
— Another rave review, this time from journalist Christine VanDeVelde on Admission Now
— An in-depth interview on BlogTalk Radio
— A swell post on InsideSchools.org
— Park Slope Patch.com profiles J.D. Rothman on the occasion of her bookstore return to her Brooklyn home turf
— Interview with J.D. Rothman in Teen Vogue
— National Association of College Admissions Counselors
— Praise from all corners
A Los Angeles Times Bestseller!
The Most Difficult Year to Get Into College in the History of the World
Admissions rates of 6%? Kids applying to 32 colleges? Sixteen-year-olds with more impressive resumes than Fortune 500 CEOs? Has the nation lost its mind?
Why yes, it has! The college admissions process now sucks approximately 1250% more time, money and psychic energy than it did when today’s parents were going through the same process. Thank God author J.D. Rothman is here to shine a light on the insanity with laugh-out-loud wit and incisive anthropological observations.
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In its colorful illustrated pages, The Neurotic Parent reveals all:
• Frightening Statistics, Shocking Pie Charts, Depressing Bar Graphs
• Kumon Tips for Preschoolers
• College Confidential: The Scariest Place on the Internet
• Why Your Teen Needs to Be a Transgendered Albanian from North Dakota
• The Most Obnoxious Question Asked by a Parent at an Information Session
• What to Expect When They're Rejecting
• Haikus for the Neurotic Parent
• Bed Bath & Bye-Bye
• How to Cash in That Ivy League Degree for a Sweet Barista Job
Woven in between these and many more hilarious bits of advice and cultural insights are the best of the Neurotic Parent's blog posts, which detail the anxiety-ridden quest for the perfect colleges for her children. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll pack up and move your family to Australia, where getting into college is reputedly just like it was in the U.S. in 1972.
A few sample pages:
