Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Sacrifices Substance for the Sake of Superficiality

The book reflects the disturbing trend in our society of winning at all costs, doing whatever it takes to get the prize. Never mind character, hard work, authenticity. The advice proferred by the author is likely to damage the children they are intended to benefit by virtue of sending the message that they, the children, needed the benefit of these Machiavellian tactics to insinuate and ingratiate themselves into college.