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Title: Admissions Confidential : An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process by Rachel Toor ISBN: 0-312-28405-5 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.2 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: More Memoir Than Expose
Comment: I'm wondering if I read the same book as the other reviewers. I found Admissions Confidential to be an interesting, lively, funny and beautifully written take on a process that I didn't really understand. The author devotes no more than 2 pages to her pet pig, and it seems to me that the "personal statements" with which Toor opens each chapter are simply examples of the kinds of essays that college applicants are asked to write. Toor is opening herself up (bravely, perhaps sometimes unwisely) to the same scrutiny that admissions officers give students.
The way the book was packaged made it look more like an expose; reading it, that was clearly not the author's intent. SHe seems to want only to describe what she saw. She states her own personal biases clearly, and talks about how this influences the larger process. Sometimes the personal stuff is relevant, sometimes not. But I for one learned a lot about how the system works. Knowledge is always power. It may not help my daughter get into her first choice school, but then again, if she doesn't, I'll have a better idea what she was up against.
Perhaps those who "read" the book while standing in a bookstore didn't really read it all.
Rating: 4
Summary: Parents of ivy hopefuls must read!
Comment: OK, I admit it, I didn't actually buy this book. But I sped-read it in about an hour at my local bookstore; that's about how much time it takes to get the point of this book. Parents of high schoolers who think their kids are ivy (or other competitive college) material should read this book. I work in a large public high school college advising office; it is a brutal process. Brand-name conscious parents are the main problem; who wants to spend $40K a year sending your kid to a school that your tennis club buddies won't recognize the name of? Toor gives what I believe is a pretty accurate look at how an admissions committee physically undertakes its task; and lets kids and parents know what it takes to stand out. Parents should take to heart her sarcastic comments about things that turn off admissions officers. Her basic message is that BWRK's (bright well-rounded kids) need not apply; the colleges are only encouraging your applications so that they can boast about how many applied and how few they accepted. Toor knows it's all about "yield."
Rating: 5
Summary: It is what goes on.
Comment: I am an admission director for your history graduate program and have two children in college. So I have gone through the admissions game from both sides. Toor is occasionally -- okay often -- too cute and this posturing is doubtless painful to readers caught in the meritocratic system. Nonetheless, what goes on at the most selective schools and programs is well reflected in this book. Especially valuable is the section on how legacies with big bucks totally transcend the selection system and are admitted by the development department.
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Title: The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College by Jacques Steinberg ISBN: 0142003085 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Early Admissions Game : Joining the Elite by Christopher Avery, Andrew Fairbanks, Richard Zeckhauser ISBN: 0674010558 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Getting in: Inside the College Admissions Process by William Henry Paul, Bill Paul ISBN: 0201154919 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: A is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting Into the Ivy League and ..... by Michele A. Hernandez ISBN: 0446674060 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: College Admissions Trade Secrets : A top private college counselor reveals the secrets, lies, and tricks of the college admissions process. by Andrew Allen ISBN: 059519897X Publisher: Writers Club Press Pub. Date: 31 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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