Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. 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. Admissions A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School By: Kendra James Narrated by: Mela Lee Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins 4.5 (83 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. 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. In Admissions, James looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she had 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. 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. Kendra James began her professional life 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 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.

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A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft SchoolĮarly on in Kendra James's professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie.

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