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Tuesday, February 22, 2005 at 11:00 AM EST
Accept My Kid, Please!
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For families with high school seniors, the next several weeks are among the most stressful of the year. College applications are in. Now is the waiting game. Will they be accepted or rejected?

The process of choosing a college and filling out applications can be overwhelming for students and harrowing for their parents. Connecticut humorist Hank Herman has recently chronicled his misadventures as a father of a high school baseball player trying to choose a college.

In this radio diary, Hank Herman reads an excerpt from his new book, “Accept My Kid, Please!” He uses fictitious names for the colleges being discussed.

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Hank Herman is a columnist for the Westport News in Connecticut. His new book is “Accept My Kid, Please!”

 
 

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