This is one of those young adult books where you feel like the author's attitude was "who cares! YA books aren't real books!" The concept is REALLY interesting. Structuring each chapter around a college application essay question is brilliant. The dialogue is dull but not terrible. The problem is the number of factual mistakes ... you know a little artistic license is fine, but when there are errors in location, plot, and characterization that could have been prevented with a quick google you really start to wonder what the author must think of his readers. 
 Some examples: 
 -Perry comes into NYC through Grand Central than later in the book inexplicably returns home via Penn Station (which by the way wouldn't have trains to where he lives anyway) 
 -Perry calls his parents at home in Connecticut, 45 minutes later he runs into them in the Lower East Side. Just getting to NYC would have taken over an hour with perfect traffic conditions, say nothing about going downtown. 
 -Male character named Milos Lazarova. Lazarova is a woman's name (Czech surnames are gendered). His name should be Milos Lazar unless he's a FTM transsexual. The same goes for Gobija's surname Zaksauskas this is the MASCULINE FORM the correct surname would be Zaksauskaite. 
 -Gobi's English skills vary wildly through the novel. One minute she can barely handle basic phrases, twenty pages later she's quoting Shakespeare? 
 These are just small things because I don't want to spoil anything for people who want to read the book ^_^ but trust me I could go on. All and all it's an okay book: a fast read with a few clever moments. I got an advanced copy so maybe (hopefully) the copy editor will fix the worst of the errors before it's released. 
 But give kids some credit, kids are smart. You can spend an extra fifteen minutes doing some research about what you've decided to write about.