"Admissions is an open and honest social critique of race in the US, as well as the coming-of-age story of a Black girl who is getting an education in a predominantly white boarding school."-Book Reporter "Frank and devastating in its candor, as well as incisive in its critique of elite academia, Admissions is a poignant coming-of-age memoir." "Admissions is a memoir of the highest caliber."-Bitch Media "n eye-opening examination of race, class, and privilege in America."-Publishers Weekly "harming and surprising. Through these stories, some troubling, others hilarious, she deconstructs the lies and half-truths she herself would later tell as an admissions professional, in addition to the myths about boarding schools perpetuated by popular culture.With its combination of incisive social critique and uproarious depictions of elite nonsense, ADMISSIONS will resonate with anyone who has ever been The Only One in a room, dealt with racial microaggressions, or even just suffered from an extreme case of homesickness. Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America's inequitable system.In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made-to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. ss I've read."-New York TimesA Most Anticipated Book by Parade Town & Country Nylon New York Post Lit Hub BookRiot Electric Literature Glamour Marie Claire Publishers Weekly Bustle Fodor's Travel Business Insider Pop Sugar InsideHook SheReadsEarly on in Kendra James' professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. The work of Admissions is laying down, with wit and care, the burden James assumed at 15, that she - or any Black student, or all Black students - would manage the failures of a racially illiterate community. Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
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