Frank Bruni - Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating juncture, 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, and in Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be, Frank Bruni explains why, giving students and their parents a new outlook on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes. 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.

Frank Bruni has been an op-ed columnist for the New York Times since June 2011, focusing on a range of subjects including higher education. In a high-profile career at the the Times that has spanned two decades, he has also been the paper's chief restaurant critic, its Rome bureau chief, a White House correspondent, the lead reporter covering George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign, and a staff writer for the The New York Times Sunday Magazine. He is the author of two best-selling books, the memoir Born Round and Ambling into History a chronicle of Bush’s rise to the presidency. He has appeared frequently as a commentator on CNN, MSNBC and other networks.

 

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ISBN: 9781455532704
Published: Grand Central Publishing - March 17th, 2015