The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays

di Irena Smith (Autore)

She Writes Press, 2023

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. 

• Autore: Irena Smith
• Editore: She Writes Press
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 256 p.
• Dimensioni: 215 x 139 mm
• EAN: 9781647424640

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