Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School
Kendra James
Grand Central Publishing
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. In Admissions, James looks back at the three years she spent at the Taft School, through stories, some troubling, others hilarious, by which 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.