Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School

by Kendra James

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"[C]harming and surprising. . . 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. . . The best depiction of elite whiteness I've read."-New York Times

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 made-to...

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  • ISBN10 1538753480
  • ISBN13 9781538753484
  • Publish Date 10 March 2022 (first published 18 January 2022)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Grand Central Publishing
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 304
  • Language English