A review by jonid
Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz

4.0

If you went to college or have a child who applied to college, or will apply to college, there is a great deal of this book that hits home. The story of a woman who works in the Princeton Admission Office are threads that are all woven into parts of the story: her relationships with her mother, her past, her college years, her job, her coworkers, her live in companion, the applicants, college faculty, and the secondary schools. Sometimes overly wordy (not sure if this is becasue it's the author's style, the assumed style of someone with an ivy league education, or simply how one talkes when living in Princeton!) I enjoyed following the information to it's end. Sometimes predictible, sometimes surprising, overall I found it to be a good read. THe arguments made by the ADmissions staff, the parents, the applicants (each chapter starts with a paragraph from an applicants' personal essay)the protagonist, her mother, the Admissions staff, high school faculty,all reveal the complexity of higher education today.