Traces the academic pursuits of four Los Angeles high school boys with very different backgrounds and resources who navigate challenges in class, race, expectations, cultural divides and luck to attend college.

Looks inside the world of high school debate at the National Tournament of Champions, focusing on seniors Richard Funches and Louis Blackwell.

After taking painkillers for a basketball injury, eighteen-year-old Cam starts seeing visions of his comatose ex-girlfriend Ally, leaving him to wonder what her spectral visits really mean.

The senior year of a girls' high school step dance team against the background of inner city Baltimore. Empowered by their teachers, coaches, families, and each other, they strive to win a championship and go to college.

High school senior Enoch Cass is the star pitcher on his baseball team, but is very insecure because of his debilitating stutter. His only friend is Wheels, who is stuck in a wheelchair because of severe cerebral palsy. When Enoch performs well at the All Star game, he receives newfound attention from interested colleges and Abbey, a girl Enoch has had a crush on. Now he must decide if he should pursue a college sports career, or stay near his family,...

En ocasiones, conocer la verdad resulta más doloroso que creer las mentiras...Eso es lo que la joven Sky descubre cuando su camino se cruza con el de Dean Holder, un chico conflictivo que tiene la irritante habilidad de despertarle emociones que ni siquiera comprende. Es capaz de aterrorizarla, y al mismo tiempo cautivarla, con una simple mirada o un roce apenas perceptible. Sky comienza a darse cuenta de que Dean atesora una importante pieza de...

Her summer internship in New York City over Chloe is back in Santa Cruz, now a senior in high school and fretting over where to apply to college, and she is having a little trouble reconnecting with her old friends--until a new girl, Jada, suggests that Chloe and old rival Nina should design all the girls dresses for the winter formal dance.

Maryland teenager Alice McKinley spends her last semester of high school performing in the school play, working on the student paper, worrying about being away from her boyfriend, who will be studying in Spain, and anticipating her future in college.

The designs for her college applications are due, and the Winter Formal designs for the girls in her class are almost done, and now there is nothing to do but wait and see which of the three colleges, FIDM, Parsons, or FIT, she is accepted to--and then decide whether her future is in Los Angeles or New York.

Working one-on-one with Tiger-mothered, burned-out kids, Anne "the application whisperer" can make Harvard a reality. Early Decision follows five students over one autumn as Anne helps them craft their college essays, cram for the SATs, and perfect the Common Application. It seems their entire future is on the line and it is. Though not because of Princeton and Yale. It's because the process, warped as it is by money, connections, competition, and...