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Where you go is not who you'll be : an antidote to the college admissions mania
Record details
- ISBN: 9781478959236 (audiobook)
- ISBN: 9781478956211 (audio download)
- ISBN: 1455532703 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9781455532704 (hardback)
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Physical Description:
v, 218 pages ; 22 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2015.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Universities and colleges United States Admission College choice United States EDUCATION / Higher College choice Universities and colleges Admission United States |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Homer Public Library | 378.16 BRU (Text) | 000120611 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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.