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A sharpwitted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first AfricanAmerican legacy student to graduate from The Taft School
Early on in Kendra James professional life she began to feel like she was selling a lie 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 madeto attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School where she had been the first AfricanAmerican legacy student only a few years earlier Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience and to realize how disillusioned she had become with Americas inequitable system
In ADMISSIONS Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft chronicling clashes with her lilywhite roommate how she had to unlearn the respectability politics shed been raised with and the fallout from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus Through these stories some troubling others hilarious she deconstructs the lies and halftruths 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
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