After 20 years of teaching, Jeremy Handcock decided it was time for a change. What to do and where to go? Well, the answer rather surprisingly lay in the wonderful world of college counseling where nothing is quite as it appears to be. Handcock takes us on a journey from the red-light district of Hamburg to the world of the super-rich in Monaco; from dodgy deals to dissecting dead bodies. Sit back and marvel at the things 18-year-olds get up to in an international school when trying to apply to elite universities around the world. Handcock's job is to fix all the messes they get themselves into, while simultaneously keeping all the parents happy. Handcock leads us through a labyrinth of crazy stories that would not be out of place in Alice in Wonderland, until eventually he manages to fix all the problems and send everyone off to university.