Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania, by Frank Bruni
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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 that it provokes. Bruni, a bestselling 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.
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania, by Frank Bruni - Amazon Sales Rank: #65401 in Books
- Brand: Bruni, Frank
- Published on: 2015-03-17
- Released on: 2015-03-17
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.75" h x 1.00" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 224 pages
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania, by Frank Bruni Review "For students, parents, teachers, and everyone else suffering during the college admissions process, Frank Bruni offers an outstanding resource. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be is a thought-provoking look at how the system works-and a fresh, reassuring reminder of what really matters in the college experience."-Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project and Happier at Home"A mind-opening book. I'm pretty sure it's going to change my life. It's already changed the way I think."-Pamela Druckerman, bestselling author of Bringing Up Bébé "The supposition that intelligence can be measured, that success can be predicted, and that the combination of the two creates happiness is rightly exploded in this sharply observed and deeply felt book. In deconstructing the college admissions process, Frank Bruni exposes the folly by which enfranchised people measure their own lives. He speaks with a voice of urgent sanity."-Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity"For any adolescent sweating college admissions--and perhaps more critically, for any parent sweating college admissions--this book is required reading. With systematic, soothing precision, Bruni amasses evidence that lives up to his title, showing readers that there are thousands of paths to success in this world, only one of which is ivy-strewn, and that the fetish we've made of marquee-name colleges is as practically misguided as it is psychologically destructive. The result is a beta-blocker and eye-opener all rolled into one, certain to allay the anxious and enlighten the curious-particularly when April rolls around."-Jennifer Senior, bestselling author of All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood"Frank Bruni provides the perfect course correction for students and parents who get sucked into the college admissions frenzy. I should know. I was one of them."-Katie Couric"Frank Bruni has a simple message for the freaked-out high school students of America. Calm down. Where you go to college matters far, far less than what you do once you get there (and afterward). He urges families to look beyond the usual suspects and find a school that's going to offer something more useful than a window sticker. His clear, well-researched book should be required reading for everyone caught up in the college-admissions game."-William Deresiewicz, bestselling author of Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and The Way to a Meaningful Life"For families caught up in college-application madness, this book provides a much-needed tonic. For the rest of us, it's an inspiring call for a wiser, saner approach to American higher education."-Paul Tough, bestselling author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character"Parents naturally want the best for our children, and that's made us vulnerable to an exorbitant, anxiety-producing, soul-crushing college admissions process. Bruni not only challenges its premise but offers (desperately!) welcome relief, reassurance and comfort to those going through it. I will be giving this book to every single family I know with a high schooler!"-Peggy Orenstein, bestselling author Cinderella Ate My Daughter"Your worth is not determined by the university you went to. Or, in other words, "Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be." Alleluia. That's the exact mantra every student and parent must heed as they navigate the stressful college admissions process. I'm doing it for the fourth time and this excellent writer's new book could not have come at a better time for me. As Frank Bruni brilliantly demonstrates, your worth is your worth and it's yours to make wherever you go." -Maria Shriver"Written in a lively style but carrying a wallop, this is a book that family and educators cannot afford to overlook as they try to navigate the treacherous waters of college admissions." -Kirkus
About the Author Frank Bruni has been an op-ed columnist for the New York Times since 2011. He previously worked as the newspaper's Rome bureau chief, Sunday magazine staff writer, one of its White House correspondents, and its chief restaurant critic. Bruni is the author of two previous bestsellers, the memoir Born Round and a chronicle of George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, Ambling into History.
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48 of 51 people found the following review helpful. Match the student to the college, not to the bumper sticker! By nicole oringer Frank Bruni has beautifully articulated what I have been trying to communicate to my students for the last 26 years as a college counselor: that branding is not a good way to select an education. I try to teach my students how to be smart consumers when purchasing an education–and this does not include shopping for the name brand. Instead, if students could match themselves to a college, rather than to a bumper sticker, they would find that they will experience intellectual, social, and spiritual educations at many institutions. The college search process should be a journey of honest self-reflection and burgeoning interests, rather than following cookie cutter paths to the same few colleges. A great education nurtures a developing brain's natural curiosity. With this in mind, students will graduate with the knowledge that they can discover unique educational experiences under many rocks, and this is value in Frank Bruni's message. Nicole Oringer, MA, Ed.M
70 of 79 people found the following review helpful. √ THE WHOLE THING DOESN'T MATTER AS MUCH AS YOU THINK By Bassocantor WHERE YOU GO IS NOT WHO YOU’LL BE goes against everything you’ve been told about college—i.e., do anything you can to get your son or daughter into the absolute BEST university you can. Getting into a top university is like the ultimate report card. When you get that "A" it means, "You have arrived!" So, take practice SAT tests, hire tutors; talk to alumni--in short, DO ANYTHING! Try for Harvard or Yale—or maybe Stanford. Of course, one doesn't mention the lowly community colleges. That’s for those who don't want to succeed.This modern thinking is utter folly, explains Frank Bruni. First of all, you need to see that your value as a person is NOT the same as the school you attend. Secondly, it is simply a lie to connect top achievement solely to top universities. That is empirically untrue, shows the author. Instead, achieving your goals is a matter of perseverance, character, and drive of the individual—those are the keys, not the name of your alma mater.The author cites numerous public figures—including presidents, many of whom went to second or even third-tier schools (I had not heard of many of their schools.) Ditto for top corporate executives. Of course, some CEOs indeed went to ivy league schools, but many did not. Ditto for honorees in science. The author concludes that “there’s no pattern” to achievement and the school attended. It’s a “patchwork.” The author also notes that the admittance process plays favorites in all kinds of ways--for example, athletic prowess.The big danger in our falling victim to this line of thinking is that we start BELIEVING IT as a fundamental precept of our life. We allow a huge chunk of our life to get tied up into something that is simply FALSE.√ WHERE YOU GO IS NOT WHO YOU’LL BE is a real wake up call to change how we think about American education--but even more, how we think about what really matters in life. The lesson is simply this: The whole thing doesn’t matter as much as you think.
26 of 29 people found the following review helpful. Relax - By Loyd Eskildson The majority of American families are focused on making sure their kinds simply attend a decent college and on finding a way to help them pay for it. A minority attach a make-or-break importance to being accepted to a finite circle of exalted institutions - that isn't supported by the evidence. That mania seems to be growing in intensity - evidenced in the escalation of applications to elite schools and the dizzying expansion and expense of college admissions coaching. (On the other hand, a single electronic application now makes it easy to apply to a lot of schools and encourages more applications, while even elite campuses attempt to boost their rankings (partly based on selectivity) by flooding the mails with glossy enticements - even though they already reject 9 of 10 applicants.Author Bruni contends that the effort students put into their collegiate education matters more than the name of that institution. And we're all becoming increasingly aware of distinguished overachievers who never graduated from college.The bulk to Bruni's 'documentation' is via anecdotal reports - always of dubious value since they're so easily influenced by author bias. Fortunately, he also cites the research by Krueger and Dale showing that students who merely applied to Ive-level schools, but didn't attend, later earned as much as those who did. But then, economist Caroline Hoxby has counter-evidence, and she's not referenced.Many recruiters told him they are much more focused on a candidate's experience than where they went to school. When the Wall Street Journal asked recruiters the best universities for their entry-level hires, the top five were Penn State, Texas A&M, the University of Illinois, Purdue, and ASU.
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