- Admission, Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), Nonfiction, Education
A riveting, behind-the-scenes look at how a top college picks the best of the lotIn the fall of 1999, New York Times education reporter Jacques Steinberg was given an unprecedented opportunity to observe the admissions process at prestigious Wesleyan University.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemporary.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Jacques Steinberg
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 323
- Publisher
- Viking, Penguin Group USA, Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781429521864
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