The Resource Where you go is not who you'll be : an antidote to the college admissions mania, Frank Bruni
Where you go is not who you'll be : an antidote to the college admissions mania, Frank Bruni
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- 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
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- v, 218 pages
- Note
- Includes index
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9781455532704
- Label
- Where you go is not who you'll be : an antidote to the college admissions mania
- Title
- Where you go is not who you'll be
- Title remainder
- an antidote to the college admissions mania
- Statement of responsibility
- Frank Bruni
- Title variation
- Where you go is not who you will be
- Title variation remainder
- an antidote to the college admissions mania
- Language
- eng
- 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
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- Bruni, Frank
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- Universities and colleges
- College choice
- Education, Higher
- College choice
- Universities and colleges
- United States
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- an antidote to the college admissions mania
- Label
- Where you go is not who you'll be : an antidote to the college admissions mania, Frank Bruni
- Note
- Includes index
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- volume
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- 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
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- v, 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9781455532704
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014049043
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn883650875
- (OCoLC)883650875
- Label
- Where you go is not who you'll be : an antidote to the college admissions mania, Frank Bruni
- Note
- Includes index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- v, 218 pages
- Isbn
- 9781455532704
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2014049043
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- (OCoLC)ocn883650875
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Subject
- United States
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- Universities and colleges -- Admission
- College choice
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- Education, Higher
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- trueSocial classes
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