Through the Woods tells the story of adolescent transformation along 53 miles of the Appalachian Trail. Follow the parallel quest to find the right boarding school as mother and daughter trade tales of hilarity and trauma in their lives and throughout the boarding school application experience. As a boarding school application guide, Through the Woods informs even more than it entertains. Seven sections describe in organized detail from an insider's track, the process, start to finish, of considering and finally enrolling in an elite New England boarding school.