Admission

"Admission by Julie Buxbaum is an incredible book! I had to read this for my English Novel and I am so happy I did! I loved how Julie Buxbaum used the crisis in the world around her and wrote a fictional-based story on the 2019 real life college admission scandal! Through her fictional character, Chloe, we are able to be along side her as she doubts and questions the things going on around her and in her life. We are able to sympathize with her throughout the story. This book is a great one to dive deeper into discovering life lessons and true meanings of plots and characters. Although on the larger scale this book wasn't relatable to myself, I was still able to find pieces that could fit into my life which is always very enjoyable in a book. In this book, there are a lot of questions and ideas that provoke the readers. Here are some that I found while reading this book: (these are only SOME) 1. Does doing the wrong thing for the right reasons/intentions make it okay? 2. How much pressure is too much on teenagers? If you still want more thoughts on Admission, I would encourage you to read the other reviews as well. Otherwise, I'll leave you with this: Admission by Julie Buxbaum is a must-read! You don't want to miss out on this incredible story that brings a well-mixed range of emotions! There are so many life lessons you can learn from this book including the inappropriate use of privilege and power and it's effects on other people. I look forward to reading more of Buxbaum's books in the near future! If she writes anything nearly as spectacular as this book, I will be in for a real treat! Enjoy reading! :) (14+) is my recommended age for reading Admission, by Julie Buxbaum! Some cuss words, but mostly just a mature story line and a bigger vocabulary is used. Little to no spice scenes included."

"I was captivated from the first chapter. It was written very well. It says it wasn’t based off the Lori Loughlin case but there was a ton of cross overs. Nonetheless it was still a great read."

"A good read! I found the characters to be very likeable. Chloe‘s family is awesome, so full of personality, and Chloe herself is very relatable."

"Thank you to NetGalley and Random House Children's/Delacorte Press Publishing for letting me read and review this intriguing story.<br/>This was a first for me by this author, Julie Buxbaum, and she was great. This was pretty well written and pulled from the headlines with the recent ongoing college admissions scandal that was in the news. <br/>It was a different and unique story using that scandal in the news as inspiration about what it might have been like for those involved in the real-life scandal or what it could be like for those involved in that type of scandal. It talks about and addresses the difference between the rich and the average or poor and how they might react and handle this kind of scandal differently. There were a lot of different issues mentioned and addressed with this story between the MC, Chloe, and her best friend, Shola, and the differences in their lifestyles, access to things, white/rich privilege, and race especially between the two best friends.<br/>There were a lot of things that I hadn't thought about as far as everything this could entail in a person's life if they were involved in this kind of scandal and how it might affect them as an individual, their family, their friends. It was very intriguing and interesting to look at things from a different perspective of what might have or could have been for the daughter of the mother who bribed someone for the daughter to get into college much like what happened in the news recently.<br/>There is a lot examined and shown from different points of view with the characters in the family with how they might feel especially how the daughter might feel finding out her parents had bought her way into college. How this kind of thing could affect the family, their relationships with each other and their friends/boyfriends, and so forth.<br/>It was a lot to cover and it was covered well and caused me to stop and think what would I have done if I was the mother - would there be anything that would make me want to buy my child's way into college, which I can't think of anything that would make me want to buy my child's way in, how would I feel if my parents had bought my way into college - thankfully they didn't because that would have been very hard to take or deal with had my parents done something like that when I was applying to college in the past. <br/>Anyway, I digress, suffice it to say this is a thought-provoking and well-written story that causes you to reflect, think, and consider how you might feel or what you might do or what you might have done. How it would be different for the rich compared to the rest of us to even be able to consider let alone do something like this and how someone might have to reflect and decide on their feelings with if they were being complicit in the situation and where their moral compass was at in regards to this kind of situation as well.<br/>If you've been intrigued by this college admissions scandal that was recently in the news, or like this author, or anything, this is a book not to be missed. It's cerebral and a bit deeper than you might think after getting into it but it's very interesting to read and think about what could have or might have happened the way she spins it with her characters experiencing the scandal in this story."

"This is basically Lori Lauglan fan fiction, but Chloe is a much more sympathetic character than Olivia Jade was."