
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be
An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
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Narrated by:
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Frank Bruni
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By:
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Frank Bruni
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 it provokes.
Bruni, a best-selling 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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Eye-opening, profound
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THIS
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Terrific
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Excellent read
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Excellent!
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Look at the idiots who have landed themselves in prison for cheating on applications. How different, really, is the mad chase for the “perfect” college. I went to a college I learned about from a brochure they sent me after the SAT. It was perfect, though few have ever heard of it. I still managed to get into a very nice law school. 🤣. Trying to avoid rankings is almost impossible! This is exactly the problem.
Read the book. Your children will thank you.
Required Reading for Parents!
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Excellent advice and grounding
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Every parent should read this book.
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Very insightful and informative in multiple areas
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