| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
v, 218 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
Draws on stories of successful people who didn't attend the most exclusive schools to demonstrate that many kinds of colleges--from large public universities to tiny hideaways in the hinterlands--serve as ideal springboards into the professional world. |
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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 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. |
| Note |
WNDSR--This book is the gift of the Windsor / Windsor Locks Rotary in honor of Dr. Craig Cooke, Superintendent of Windsor Public Schools. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Subject |
Universities and colleges -- United States -- Admission.
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College choice -- United States.
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| Added Title |
Where you go is not who you will be |
| ISBN |
9781455532704 (hardback) |
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1455532703 (hardback) |
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