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Where you go is not who you'll be : an antidote to the college admissions mania / Frank Bruni.

by Bruni, Frank.

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Grand Central Publishing, 2015.

Universities and colleges -- Admission.

College choice.

9781455532704 (hc.)

1455532703 (hc.)

v, 218 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes index.

Introduction -- The unsung alma maters -- Throwing darts -- Obsessives at the gate -- Rankings and wrongs -- Beyond the comfort zone -- From Tempe to Waterloo -- An elite edge? -- Strangled with ivy -- Humbled, hungry and flourishing -- Fire over formula -- Epilogue.

Over the last few decades, high school seniors have turned the college admissions process into a terrifying and occasionally devastating competition, 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. Frank Bruni is the author of the memoir Born Round and a chronicle of George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, Ambling into History.

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