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

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: Spanish Publisher: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2016Copyright date: 2015Edition: First trade editionDescription: 262 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 1455532681
  • 9781455532681
Other title:
  • Where you go is not who you will be
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 378.1 23
LOC classification:
  • LB 2351.2 B896w 2016
Other classification:
  • EDU015000
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) LB 2351.2 B896w 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 3 Available 00000120628

Originally published in hardcover by Hachette Book Group, c2015.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-252) and index.

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, 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.

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