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Devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son. It seems as if every former collegeadmissions officer writes a guide to getting into college at least according to portia. Shes proud of her work as an admissions officer at formerly countryclubbish princeton, now a bastion of multiethnic excellence thanks to the dedication of portia and her colleagues to finding the very brightest of all races and classes. Jean hanff korelitz does have a rather meandering style of writing and it does seem to take a long time to make any progress with the story.
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