Admission is one of those books that I don't think you appreciate until you finish it. It is very dense and does not make for quick reading. It is interesting but you do find yourself looking at how far you still have to go. When you go back and think about the complex personal story of the main character you realize it was a well thought out and fully fleshed character profile which is a difficult task to accomplish so Korelitz gets an A+ for that.
Admission tells the story of a Princeton admissions counselor Portia Nathan. Portia takes us through the admission season for the premiere Ivy league school with the eyes of someone who has ultimate power in making dreams come true. In her quest to review her areas applicants she makes a visit to an new experimental high school and comes into contact with an old acquaintance from her own college years and a young student who she cannot get out of her head. She reviews thousands of applicants every season but this Jeremiah...there is something about him. His grades are atrocious and he had no motivation within the academic arena but he is a genius on levels beyond even the highly polished, typical Princeton applicants. Portia feels something in her gut about this kid and makes a potentially career altering decision on his behalf. She continues to deal with all of the stress that the admission season brings while her partner and colleague Mark of sixteen years reveals to her that his mistress is pregnant and he is leaving her.
Portia is a complicated woman who mirrors so many of the kind who live around us everyday. She is routine oriented and on the verge of a mental collapse under the stress of her job and life. Toward the latter part of the story it is revealed to us readers a long hidden secret that starts to shed lights on some of the motivations behind Portia's decisions.
Overall it is an okay read. I'm not sure it will be worth it to most of you who read this blog to get through the whole thing but lucky for you, if you are on the fence I just found out this will actually be coming to movie theaters later this year as a comedy. The book is not at all funny but I suppose with a little Hollywood magic it could be twisted that way. It is staring Paul Rudd and Tina Fey so it has great cast going for it. I truly had no idea it was being made a movie and oddly enough I was researching some books for the library and came across the release date. From what I can tell of the synopsis of the movie it is actually nothing like the book. They seem to play it out in reverse but hey, I guess they can do whatever they want with it. This one is tough to recommend but it wasn't horrible. If you're like me and have a reading list that in 100 lifetimes you could never finish, I'd skip this one and see the movie.
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