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wondered if Ms. Glos had even gone to college. You would have
thought that if she were going to dish out advice on the subject, she
could have at least tried it.
Ms. Glos cleared her throat. “Yes, well, your schedule is perfectly
acceptable. Not stellar, mind you, but adequate. I imagine you’re
making up for it with extracurriculars, yes?”
Serena shrugged her shoulders. If you can call drinking Pernod and
dancing naked on a beach in Cannes an extracurricular. “Not
really,” she said. “I mean, I’m not actually signed up for any
extracurriculars at the moment.”
Ms. Glos let her glasses drop. Her nostrils were turning very red and
Serena wondered if she was about to have a bloody nose. Ms. Glos
was famous for her bloody noses. Her skin was very pale, with a
yellowish tinge. All the girls thought she had some terrible
contagious disease.
“No extracurriculars? But what are you doing to improve yourself?”
Serena gave Ms. Glos a polite, blank look.
Who said she needed improving?
“I see. Well, we’ll have to get you involved in something, won’t we?”
Ms. Glos said. “I’m afraid the colleges aren’t going to even look at
you without any extracurriculars.” She bent over and pulled a big
looseleaf binder out of a drawer in her desk and began flipping
through pages and pages of flyers printed on colored paper. “Here’s
something that starts this week. ‘Feng Shui Flowers, the Art of Floral
Design.’ ”
She looked up at Serena, who was frowning doubtfully. “No, you’re
right. That’s not going to get you into Harvard, is it?” Ms. Glos said
with a little laugh.
She pushed up the sleeves of her blouse and frowned at the binder
as she flipped briskly through the pages. She wasn’t about to give
up after only one try. She was very good at her job.
Serena gnawed on her thumbnail. She hadn’t thought about this.
That colleges would actually need her to be anything more than she
already was. And she definitely wanted to go to college. A good
one. Her parents certainly expected her to go to one of the best
schools. Not that they put any pressure on her—but it went without
saying. And the more Serena thought about it, the more she
realized she really didn’t have anything going for her. She’d been
kicked out of boarding school, her grades had fallen, she had no
idea what was going on in any of her classes, and she had no
hobbies or cool after-school activities. Her SAT scores sucked
because her mind always wandered during those stupid fill-in-thebubble
tests. And when she took them again, they would probably
suck even worse. Basically, she was screwed.