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Rachel Toor is professor of creative writing at Eastern Washington University in Spokane and is a former college admissions officer at Duke University. Her books include Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process and a young adult novel about college mostrar más admissions, On the Road to Find Out. mostrar menos
Obras de Rachel Toor
Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process (2001) 54 copias
Hitting the wall 7 copias
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Eastern Washington University - Agente
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- Rachel Toor has been an admissions officer at Duke University, a high school cross-country coach, and a SAT prep tutor. She currently teaches writing at the Eastern Washington University in Spokane and is a featured columnist for The Chronicle of Higher Education. [adapted from Misunderstood (2016)]
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I enjoyed her writing about the experience of learning how to run. I found some of the exposition about running tedious but that's because I've been running for a dozen years, non-runners would need to exposition, I think.
The information about Walter the Rat was both interesting and strange. I understand how it contributed to the story of Alice but I still found it a bit irritating. Must be my anti-rat bias!
The lessons about learning to be wrong and choosing a college wisely are good lessons as is the one about paying more attention to the people you love although delivered in a somewhat heavy handed manner.
Overall it was enjoyable but not spectacular. I might share it with my friend's daughter who recently started to run cross country in high school.
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