Acceptance by Susan Coll

This is a book about the competive process of applying to college, but it's fiction. The main characters include AP Harry, a couple of his classmates, and the dean of admissions at Yates College, a university that, because of a mistake, ranks as #50 in US News and World Report's Best Colleges and is suddenly bombarded with tons of applications from highly qualified students.

This book is funny and puts some perspective on the whole process of applying to college. I think it would be a good read for parents and their high school kids. I enjoyed reading it because it was pretty amusing. I found the ending to be a bit weak and unsatisfying though.