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Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be
Frank Bruni
An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
Grand Central Publishing
March 2015
On Sale: March 17, 2015
224 pages
ISBN: 1455532703
EAN: 9781455532704
Kindle: B00LLIIZMK
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Self-Help | Non-Fiction
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.
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