Alina Adams is the New York Times bestselling author of soap opera tie-in, figure skating mysteries, romance novels, historical fiction, and the nonfiction books GETTING INTO NYC KINDERGARTEN and GETTING INTO NYC HIGH SCHOOL. She has been covering the New York City school system for over twenty years for Today Show Parenting, The New York Daily News, The New York Post, The 74 Million, and Advance. She has been featured in The Atlantic, New York Magazine, and The New York Times. Most importantly, Alina has applied her three kids to a variety of New York City public, private, and gifted schools – and lived to tell (all) about it!