Listen Up! I Am Charlotte Simmons by Tom Wolfe

I Am Charlotte Simmons (M) by Tom Wolfe is set in what seems to me to be an absolutely terrifying American college. Dupont College has a long history of educating the connected and the well-to-do, ensuring a high-paid future in investment banking or politics. Dupont also educates a group of elite athletes, the basketball players being at the top of the bunch. Next in the social strata are the frat boys and sorority girls who are entitled, well-heeled and view college years as a extended opportunity to drink and to hook-up. Next we meet the uber-intellectuals, who both scorn and fear the athletes and frat-boys, and who compensate with their own exclusive conclaves and moral judgements. Finally, we have Charlotte Simmons.
Charlotte Simmons is an anomaly who fits in nowhere. She is a brilliant sheltered girl who enters Dupont on an academic scholarship fully anticipating her college years to be focused on learning and scholarship. She quickly finds that she is isolated and lonely. What she doesn’t anticipate is the effect she will have on so many lives.

Source: http://www.thereader.ca/2012/07/listen-up-i-am-charlotte-simmons-by-tom.html