A review by carrix2
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz

3.0

Not a bad book but not one I would want to read again. I was frustrated by the description of what an admissions officer faces - a description that was repeated again and again and again ad nauseam. How many times can you tell me how amazingly incredible every applicant is and how amazingly difficult it is to pare 17,000 applicants down to 1,800 admissions?? Not to mention the pretentiousness that goes along with allowing kids to enter the great annuls of Princeton University! I want sick to death of hearing so many applicants described to me and how the “normally exceptional” just weren’t accept up all enough. Makes me hate the Ivy League and everything it implies.
All of that aside, I enjoyed Portia’s story and wish the book had spent more time there and less time on Princeton itself.