TY - BOOK AU - Bruni,Frank TI - Where you go is not who you'll be: an antidote to the college admissions mania SN - 1455532681 AV - LB 2351.2 B896w 2016 U1 - 378.1 23 PY - 2016/// CY - New York, NY PB - Grand Central Publishing KW - Universities and colleges KW - United States KW - Admission KW - College choice KW - EDUCATION / Higher KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Colleges and universities KW - Entrance requirements KW - sears N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016302570-b.html UR - https://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1618/2016302570-d.html ER -