Entry 24: It's Kind of a Funny Story

"Two years ago I got into one of the best high schools in Manhattan: Executive Pre-Professional High School...all you have to do to get in is pass a test.  Then your whole high school is paid for and you have access to 800 of the smartest, most interesting students in the world-not to mention the teachers and visiting dignitaries   You can come out of Executive Pre-Professional High School and go right into Wall Street, although that's not what you should do; what you should do is come out and go to Harvard and then law school.  That's how you end up being, like, President."

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Awh yes. It's time to relax with a young adult novel. oh, its about the stress of getting into a school?  Perfect.
So in New York, this is how it works:  Parents work to get you into a good pre-school so you get into a good elementary so you get into a good middle school so you get into a good high school.  Then you can get into a good college and be president or whatever. In school it feels like there is a chain of events leading to the rest of your life that you can screw up in any minute. Even though everyone tells you high school doesn't matter we are all scared out of our minds. Craig the narrator is about to feel the weight of this stress.