Thank You for Applying, 2022

"High school graduation is fast approaching for senior Marjorie "Jorie" Jorie Haywood, and she's overwhelmed by everything: AP exams, prom committees, musical rehearsals, and her part-time job. food service shifts. Most importantly of all of this are the college applications. Jorie is sethas her heart set on attending the University of Florida, —in her mind, it's a given and always has been—so when UF waitlists her, she spirals, desperately searches desperately searching for a way to impress her way off the waitlist and onto an the acceptance list. When her school's musical risks cancellation shut down due to a lack of funding, Jorie realizes she just might be able to do both: if she can save the musical through an elaborate project, it might just be impressive enough to change her standing with UF. wow UF, possibly changing her standing. What she doesn't plan for is how her relationship with her best friend Wesley might be affected by their blossoming romantic connection and her rampant secrecy and lies. Ultimately, Jorie must make decisions decide not just about which school she will attend but what her future plans are. She has to reconcile shift what her priorities are in a college her priorities for college compared to what she thought they were, and reconcile her teenage dreams with her new goals as a young adult. how that reconciliation represents a teenager growing up into a young adult. She also discovers how a lack of trust in the people closest to her leads to her deception dishonesty, which that only causes pain and conflict. Jorie learns to value the important relationships in her life, whether static or evolving, as they play figure into her goals for her career and her life." -- Abstract