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Personal Statements

Irena Smith

Digressive, thinly substantiated weekly takes on refrigerator turf wars, petty grudge-holding, ADHD, nostalgia, eavesdropping, 1980s television, the tangled threads that connect families, plus metaphorical sausage-making (aka a memoir-in-progress).

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  • Irena Smith

    Soviet emigre->high school underachiever->comparative literature PhD-> Stanford admissions officer-> college counselor->writer. Author of THE GOLDEN TICKET: A LIFE IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS ESSAYS (a memoir, not a how-to).

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