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    Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
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    Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

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    Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no.

    That belief is wrong. It's cruel. And in WHERE YOU GO IS NOT WHO YOU'LL BE, Frank Bruni explains why, giving students and their parents a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes.

    Bruni, a bestselling author and a columnist for the New York Times, shows that the Ivy League has no monopoly on corner offices, governors' mansions, or the most prestigious academic and scientific grants. Through statistics, surveys, and the stories of hugely successful people who didn't attend the most exclusive schools, he demonstrates that many kinds of colleges-large public universities, tiny hideaways in the hinterlands-serve as ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make the most of them. What matters in the end are a student's efforts in and out of the classroom, not the gleam of his or her diploma.

    Where you go isn't who you'll be. Americans need to hear that-and this indispensable manifesto says it with eloquence and respect for the real promise of higher education.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMar 17, 2015
    ISBN9781478956211
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    Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

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    • 5/5
      I am not heading to college nor is anybody in my family. Yet I found this book really informative and interesting.The mania which takes over students' lives when college admissions season hits is just unbelievable and Bruni addresses this mania. He wonders if it is well-deserved and makes a good case for the converse.A well-researched and well-written book. It'll help many High School seniors and their parents set their priorities right.
    • 5/5
      If you have a high school student, then you're probably aware of how competitive it is to get into college. Everyone has a story about a straight A student with 2400 SATs who got rejected from an elite school. People will rant about how crazy the college admissions process is -- how even the best students are getting rejected by schools that just decades ago, people hadn't even heard of. But do you want to know what is really crazy? It's the things people will do to try to increase their chances to get into an 'elite' school. They will spend thousands of dollars on prep courses for the SAT. They will hire private college counselors in MIDDLE school. In my neighborhood, there are even some academic coaching companies that will guarantee that your child will get into one of the top 15 schools ... for the small fee of $49,000 dollars. The question is why have we become obsessed with admission into these schools? Will our children be better people? Will they make more money? Is it important that they make money? Is it for our own egos?Author Frank Bruni, a NY Times columnist has written an excellent book about the college admissions mania. This book is filled with some interesting stories about individuals who didn't go to those top schools as well as offers a good dose of courage for parents to walk their own path as they navigate the whole college admission process. Will things change and become more sane? I sure hope so.
    • 5/5
      Great book about the insanity our college education and its admissions process.
    • 5/5
      I enjoy reading Frank Bruni’s columns in the New York Times – they’re always well researched, well written and thought provoking. In this slim volume, just over 200 pages, the author states the case for high-school students and their parents to chill out about their mad dash to get accepted into an Ivy League school. I was enlightened by how highly selective colleges drum up larger and larger numbers of applications – many, many times more than they can accept – simply to boost their ratings in U.S. News & World Reports college rankings. The colleges can leave tens of thousands of students devastated for a totally frivolous reason. It’s the stories I found most interesting – students who were rejected, only to find their dream school where they least expected it; students whose rejections freed them to be themselves, and to succeed beyond their wildest dreams.Because I don’t have children, I’ve never seen for myself the craziness that can surround the college admissions process. I feel sorry for kids whose parents push them into the rat race rather than helping them find the place they can feel at home and thrive.