Where you go is not who you'll be
Subtitle: an antidote to the college admissions mania
By: Frank Bruni
Edition: First trade edition.
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781455532681
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Colleges and universities; College choice; EDUCATION / Higher; Admission; Entrance requirements; Universities and colleges
Other titles: Where you go is not who you will be
Description: 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 this book, 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.
Notes: Originally published in hardcover by Hachette Book Group, c2015.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: The unsung alma maters; title: Throwing darts; title: Obsessives at the gate; title: Rankings and wrongs; title: Beyond the comfort zone; title: From Tempe to Waterloo; title: An elite edge?; title: Strangled with ivy; title: Humbled, hungry and flourishing; title: Fire over formula; title: Epilogue.