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The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays de Irena Smith

The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays

Autor Irena Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 apr 2023
In this funny, heartbreaking, timely memoir?told in the form of college admission essays?Irena Smith illuminates the dissonance of working as a college consultant in Palo Alto, California, helping the best and brightest students in the country gain admission to highly selective schools, even as her own children are unraveling.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781647424640
ISBN-10: 164742464X
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Simon And Schuster Group USA
Colecția She Writes Press
Locul publicării:United States

Descriere

Palo Alto, California, is home to stratospheric real estate prices and equally high expectations, a place where everyone has to be good at something and where success is often defined by the name of a prestigious college on the back of a late-model luxury car.

It's also the place where Irena Smith Soviet émigré, PhD in comparative literature, former Stanford admission reader--works as a private college counselor to some of the country's most ambitious and tightly wound students . . . even as, at home, her own children unravel.

Narrated as a series of responses to college application essay prompts, The Golden Ticket combines sharp social commentary, family history, and the lessons of great (and not so great) literature to offer a broader, more generous vision of what it means to succeed.

Notă biografică

Irena Smith was born in the former Soviet Union and grew up in Moscow in the waning days of the Brezhnev regime; in 1977, her family emigrated from the USSR and sought asylum in the United States as political refugees. She has been published in HIAS@130: 1+30: The Best of myStory, Mama, PhD: Women Write about Motherhood and Academic Life, and Literary Mama. She has a PhD in comparative literature from UCLA and lives in Palo Alto, California.