Is there a difference between knowing something and knowing-knowing something? Chloe is a mediocre student and as a high school senior at Wood Valley, it seems all anyone can think about is college. Her mother’s celebrity status has gotten her plenty of handouts jn life, but Chloe is certain that college will not be one of them due to her place in the bottom half of her grade. Alternating between now and then, Chloe’s journey through a college admissions scandal takes you on a heart wrenching journey as the scandal evolves from beginning to end as the reader constantly questions what Chloe knows or doesn’t know, and the fate of her post-high school status.

This was such a genius book on so many levels! Using current events this author created a truly compelling YA Fiction novel! As many of us followed this story closely it was so interesting to see the College Admissions Scandal in a more emotional way, Often we only see these stories told through the cold hard facts and we can sometimes forget there are real people being dealt with! This book really was very enjoyable and I would recommend it to any fans of YA Fiction and anyone who is interested in the College Admissions Scandal! Enjoy!

Although this story is ripped right from the headlines, it is really the coming of "privilege awareness".

The college scandal is now well known and the characters, locations and outcomes are largely identical to the real thing. I think the author could have taken a bit more fictional liberty to make this story more interesting. For those of us who followed the story, the repetitive nature was not as engaging as it could have been.

I did enjoy the daughter's perspective and the self discovery that emerged from the trauma of her story. A fun read for a high school age student.

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Chloe Berringer is the daughter of a celebrity and the FBI is at her door accusing her of cheating her way into college. This ripped from the headlines story was entertaining and thought provoking. Chloe isn't a studious student, but her parents are set on her going to a prestigious college. The entitlement and privileged attitude Chloe has is not surprising from her background. Her younger sister, Isla, is much more in touch with how the world works and tries to get her family to wake up to reality. I enjoyed the story of how complicit Chloe was in her college application process. I wish more of the disparity between Chloe and her best friend, Shola had been explored. Overall, this was a quick, engaging read.

I was definitely intrigued by the premise of this book. I thought it would be a great narrative about the college admissions scandal. I was slightly disappointed when I noticed the similarities between the family in the book and one of the most infamous families in the real scandal. I wanted pure fiction and not an imagined reality.

However, I did enjoy the characters and the book was fast paced enough that I finished it in just a few hours. There were a few topics discussed that I wished were explored more deeply, but I was pleased to see they were at least touched upon.

I loved the premise of Admission right off the bat. I was intrigued by the real-life college admissions scandal, and the fictional one Julie Buxbaum creates does not disappoint. I felt more sympathy than I was expecting to for Chloe's parents, and although Chloe herself was sometimes frustrating and naive, that was the point the author was trying to make. Isla, Chloe's sister, was easily my favorite character in the entire book, and I loved how the story ended with her going off to Yale. Overall, this was a very solid and relevant read that I couldn't put down.

I love everything Julie Buxbaum has written, and this novel is no exception. She did an excellent job of showing both the pure villainy and the shades of grey in this admissions scandal, all while highlighting the poisons of privilege. I didn't always like Chloe - and that was the point. It's a shame its publication is going to be delayed, but in these times, it makes sense.

Thank you net galley for the advance reader copy of this novel. This is my third novel by this author and I enjoyed it immensely. I honestly didn't pay attention to the real college admissions scandal so this novel keep me turning the pages to find out the conclusion. It was truly a thought provoking read about what it means to "know" and "when" you know it. My heart broke for Chloe with the loss of her friendship with Shola. I liked how the author started at arrest day and then flipped back and forth in the timeline each chapter. Isla, sister to maain character Chloe, was a great secondary character and loved how the novel ended with her admission to college. I did not like Hudson's character at all but that is the intent there. A fabulous YA read that kept me up very late to finish!!!!! I can't wait for the Authors novel that got pushed to the side for this one..

Readers of Julie Buxbaum’s earlier books will also enjoy Admission. In ‘ripped from the headlines’ fashion, Chloe finds herself in a college admission’s scandal. Chloe is the daughter of a popular sitcom tv star. In alternating ‘past’ and ‘now’ chapters, the story unfolds as to her parents’ roles in the quest to get Chloe admitted to her ideal college, SCC. Along the way, the reader also sees the impact of the events on her relationship with her sister, best friend, and friend-turned-boyfriend. A great read for lovers of YA and would also make a great beach read.

I received this Advanced Reader Copy via NetGalley.

I'm surprised how quickly the recent college admissions scandal made it into fiction! I was fascinated with the whole scandal, so I knew this book would interest me! I liked seeing a fictionalized look into the behind the scenes of the families involved in a scandal. I also thought the author did a good job at touching on the privilege these families have, but didn't delve too deep into this issue. I couldn't help but picture Lori Laughlin as the mom, even though the author specifically stated all the characters are completely fictionalized.

Thanks to Random House and NetGalley for an advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.

I absolutely loved this story and loved the way it was written. It was unique because it alternating between the past and the present.

Great take on the Hollywood Admissions scandal. I enjoyed that was told from the point of view as a teenager involved in it. I liked how it showed both sides of why the parents did it and how it effected their kids and kids of other economic groups.

Loved this book! I was so engrossed in the story immediately, especially given that something so similar to this was so recently in the news. It was written so well and truly made you question yourself, your privilege and taking responsibility for your actions, even when it may have felt like you were just doing your "best" for your loved ones. Julie just has such a way with words. Sometimes one of her passages, can just take your breath away. Thank you to Netgalley and Delacorte Press for the ARC.

I am not sure how I feel about this book, to be honest. On one hand, I love this author, and I love her writing. The writing is clean, the dialogue is great, the characters are decently developed, but..... I guess I just wasn't interested in the subject matter. It was a little too "ripped from the headlines" for me.

I enjoyed the insight into the privileged life style, the fact that it didn't gloss over racial and social inequality, and the fact that it held the perpetrators responsible.

I did love the main characters, Chloe's, personification. She was vulnerable, insecure, and relate-able, which isn't easy to be considering she's a rich girl, who's mom spends her life in the spotlight.

So, while I didn't really like the subject, I am still giving this a solid 4/5 stars, because it's so well written!

Thanks to the publisher for an advanced copy, the opinions in this review are all my own.

A contemporary YA novel about a college admissions scandal? Yes please. Chloe is the daughter of a B list actress, and doesn’t have the strongest academic record. Mom heard about a private admissions counselor who can get Chloe into her dream school...but how much does Chloe know about this? Should she be implicated?
This is a page turner.

A fictionalization of the college admissions scandal in 2019, Julie Buxbaum's newest book gives insight into the lives of a Beverly Hills family thrusted into the public eye because of their entitled actions. She did a great job of capturing the craziness during this wild time that we have yet to see fully resolved. 

This relevant novel moves through two different time periods—before and after—showing the different choices that were made leading up to her mother's arrest, followed by the consequences of those actions. Chloe was so clueless, but you kind of can't blame her. She grew up in the bubble of Beverly Hills, having everything done for her: meals cooked, house cleaned, tutors for studying, ect. She knows she's not the brightest girl—not like her best friend, boyfriend, and even her younger sister—but she also knows that she doesn't try as hard as she could. 

I absolutely loved Chloe's sister Isla. It was like she was the only person around with any real sense of the outside world. You really feel a lot of sympathy for her, knowing that her integrity and own worth will be in question when she applies to colleges the following year.  

If you are familiar with the scandal, you can definitely pinpoint different nods to some of the more high profile cases. While this wasn't an extraordinary piece of literature, it was highly entertaining and moved through the college admissions process really well.

ARC was provided by the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

I really enjoyed this book. To be perfectly honest, I thought I would hate Chloe. I thought this would be one of those books where i want to see the main character get what's coming to them. but, Chloe moved me. She was so human and jumped right off the page. I just wanted to hug her sometimes. Even her mom, the pinnacle of perfection, was so flawed and towards the end had so much dimension to her. Well done author!

Based on the real-life college admissions scandal, Chloe Berringer’s life is turned upside down when her mother, Joy Fields, is arrested for bribing the admissions department to get Chloe into college. The novel alternates between the events of Chloe’s senior year before and after the FBI knocks on her front door to arrest her mother.

I didn’t follow the real-life events all that closely, but I was drawn into the idea of this story. I was picturing Lori Laughlin as Joy Fields the entire time. I loved being able to see Chloe’s life before and after. It really gave the reader a full picture of everything that went down and everything Chloe lost when the story was unveiled.

I know there's a whole section at the beginning about how this was all made up in Julie Buxbaum's head and hardly at all based on Aunt Becky's scandal, but after finishing the book, there's next-to-no-chance I believe that. I'm pretty sure only the names were changed, and Buxbaum just made up the dialogue for what happened behind closed doors. Not to say this isn't a good book - it is! I wanted to keep reading to the end. I wasn't a fan of the main character -- and maybe we're not supposed to be; she's incredibly self-absorbed. But you'd kind of have to be to not see what's going on, right? I hated that Shola had to explain EVERY. SINGLE. THING. to Chloe. You could sense her exhaustion and annoyance; I was exhausted and annoyed FOR her. This book did make me think of the siblings in these cases when I hadn't previously. I truly loved Chloe's sister's character. I'm glad she got the ending she did. This isn't a book I'll reread, but I know I have students who will enjoy it. I've already pre-ordered it for our library.

I think when the college admissions scam broke, some of us were probably surprised that such a thing could occur, and then others of us were probably thinking that this has probably been going on forever and these were just the people that finally got caught. What I like about the book is the it is from the perspective of the daughters, one in the middle of the scam, and one who has nothing to do with any of it- and what they both are dealing with. I felt a great deal of sympathy for Chloe and I actually felt her character got way more than she deservedd from her so called friends. Yes, I get that she is priviliged and as a result she doesn't always think about how other people might have struggles she has never thought of, but at the same time she kind of does. She is mentor to Cesar, a little boy with way more worries in his little life than Chloe will ever have to deal with and she seems aware of this from the very beginning. The scam seems to help her grow as a person to see even more of the errors of her ways, and yes they shoulld have been angry at her, but I felt like her friends were unsympathetic and unforgiving. Her parents did something very bad, and it is interesting to see through the book how they work through it all both legally and emotionally. I thought it was a great book that I would definitely recommend to anyone who enjoys contemporary fiction or young adult novels.