![]() ![]() In ADMISSIONS, Kendra looks back at the three years she spent at Taft, chronicling clashes with her lily-white roommate, how she had to unlearn the respectability politics she'd been raised with, and the fall-out from a horrifying article in the student newspaper that accused Black and Latinx students of being responsible for segregation of campus. ![]() Her new job forced her to reflect on her own elite education experience, and to realize how disillusioned she had become with America’s inequitable system. ![]() As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for independent prep schools, she persuaded students and families to embark on the same perilous journey she herself had made-to attend cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. "A sharp-witted and deeply insightful look into the storied world of elite prep schools from the first African-American legacy student to graduate from The Taft School.Įarly on in Kendra James’ professional life, she began to feel like she was selling a lie. Admissions: A Memoir of Surviving Boarding School Description ![]()
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