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Names: James, Kendra, author.
Title: Admissions : a memoir of surviving boarding school / Kendra James.
Description: First Edition. | New York : Grand Central Publishing, [2022] | Summary:
"Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing
in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and
families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white
schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been
the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced to reflect on her
own elite educational experience, she quickly became disillusioned by America's
inequitable system. In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at
Taft, from clashes with her lily-white roommate, to unlearning the respectability politics
she'd been raised with, and a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused
Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. She contemplates
the benefits of the education she got from Taft, which Kendra credits as playing a role in her
career success, as well as the ways the school coddled her--perhaps, she now believes, too
much. Through these stories, 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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021033014 | ISBN 9781538753484 (Hardcover) | ISBN
9781538753491 (eBook)
Subjects: LCSH: School administrators--United States--Biography. | African
American school administrators. | Private schools--Administration. |
Minority students--Recruiting. | Racism in education--United States. |
Elite (Social sciences)--Education--United States.
Classification: LCC LA2317.J35 A3 2022 | DDC 370.92 [B]--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021033014
ISBNs: 9781538753484 (hardcover), 9781538753491 (ebook)
E3-20211112-DA-NF-ORI
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closed weekend: A weekend (usually during a campus event like Parents Weekend or Hotchkiss Day, or final exams) in which students couldnt sign out to leave campus; the reason I didnt get to see Hitch on opening day.
faculty brat (fac brat): A student whose parents teach at the school they attend.
FLIK: The company used by many independent schools to provide three square meals a day. It probably tasted better than I remember, as my palate was less refined than the sugar in the Nerds Ropes I used to eat by the dozens, but whos to say, really?
grades: Behavioral demerits that could be assigned by faculty for infractions ranging from skipping class or trying to hatch a goose egg under a desk lamp in your dorm room, to leaving a flat iron plugged in for hours after youve left for class or wearing the same skirt as your classmate while having a larger ass, thus somehow making it inappropriate.
hall monitors: Student narcs selected by dorm faculty to help ensure that dormitory living runs smoothly.
head monitors: Two seniorsone boy and one girlvoted in by the student body to lead the student government. These students tended to be less narc-y, as they were elected by their peers, not adults.
Honor Code: The Honor Code governs student life at Taft, putting in place standards and consequences specifically for theft and academic infractions. Assignments are signed with I pledge my honor (short for I pledge my honor that I have neither given nor received aid on this paper, which we were required to write on all larger term papers and exams). The theft clause allows Tafts campus to be a rather idyllic community, where backpacks and other personal effects are left lying around the school with a reckless abandon, a habit that students dont unlearn until they end up getting their wallet stolen from a condiments counter at a New York City Panera because they left it there while they got up to go to the bathroom. Honor Code violations are disciplined by the Honor Committee at Honor Court.
Hotchkiss Day: One day each year, usually in the fall, when Taft plays its rival, Hotchkiss, in as many sports as possible. Taft students spend the week leading up celebrating, which, in my day, culminated in a pep rally in which we would light the name of our own school on fire. Im not sure why we were burning ourselves in effigy, especially since with two Ts in the word Taft, every picture from one of those rallies looks like its a Klan-hosted cross burning.
in loco parentis: Latin meaning in place of the parents. If youre planning on sending your kid to a boarding school, make sure youre very comfortable with this phrase, because its what youre gonna hear when you ask anything from why the nurse gave your kid Advil instead of Tylenol to why a dorm parent performed a full-on Steve Wilkos search of their dorm room because they thought they smelled something skunky.
the Jig: Short for the Jigger Shop. A small campus caf where short-order line cooks slung bacon, egg, and cheeses, burgers, and fountain sodas in the afternoon when classes had finished.
legacy: A student whose parent or grandparent also attended and graduated from the same school. There is often, though not always, some sort of generational wealth involved.
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