Hacking Harvard by Robin Wasserman

"It's the ultimate challenge: breaking into the Ivy League.
The hack:
To get one deadbeat, fully unqualified slacker into the most prestigious school in the country.
The crew:
Eric Roth -- the good guy, the voice of reason.
Max Kim -- the player who made the bet in the first place.
Schwartz -- the kid genius already on the inside...of Harvard, that is.
Lexi -- the beauty-queen valedictorian who insists on getting in the game.
The plan:
Use only the most undetectable schemes and techno-brilliant skills. Don't break the Hacker's Code. Don't get distracted. Don't get caught. Take down someone who deserves it.
The stakes:
A lot higher than they think.
They've got the players, the plot, and soon -- the prize.
It's go time" -Goodreads.com

Hacking Harvard shows the pressure some people have when it comes to getting into a Ivy League. It's has the perspective of people who hate them and the ones who will do anything to get into them. The character who I liked best was Max, his whole family went to Harvard and it is assumed that he will go too. Even if he doesn't. So he decided to make a bet with some people that he could get anyone into Harvard to show how corrupt the system is.
I really liked how it played out, the only thing I didn't like was it switching really fast between different point of views and would sometimes have to read back to see who's character I was reading.

4 stars.

Read from February 05 to 06, 2013