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

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

Year after year, high school seniors open rejection letters that destroy their confidence and lead them to believe they have failed at one of life's most critical junctures--something that has happened in so many American households with college-bound kids. While there are countless books teaching people how to identify and get into the colleges of their dreams, there's a deep need for dialogue questioning the intensity of those dreams, emphasizing that the college admissions moment isn't the most important in a lifetime, illustrating that college is what a student makes of it, and exhorting people to look at it in a different, less status-oriented way.Expanding on an April 2014 column titled, Our Crazy College Crossroads--which went viral, generated numerous emails to Bruni, and topped the most viewed and most emailed categories of the New York Times for days--Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be is the manifesto that puts the college admissions process into desperately needed perspective. It not only dissects the limited meaning of a rigged and sometimes random admissions process, it also discusses many of the hugely successful Americans who didn't go to Ivy League schools. It sketches profiles of young adults who were denied their dream colleges but found that the schools where they ended up were perfect for them, making the case that the attitude with which a student approaches college matters more than the college itself. It presents data and expert opinions that question the advantages of diplomas from Ivy League schools (and their ilk) and looks at the abundance of fantastic schools--and fantastic programs--outside the few dozen elite institutions that parents focus relentlessly on. All the while, Bruni weaves in larger life lessons--that setbacks can be springboards, that the wisest course isn't always the most obvious one--that make this book a corrective tool and a balm not just for high school graduates eyeing the horizon.Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be serves as a thought-provoking antidote, an impassioned rallying cry, and a poignant retort to aspirational thinking.

Bruni, Frank: - Frank Bruni has been a prominent journalist for more than three decades, including more than twenty-five years at The New York Times, the last ten of them as a nationally renowned op-ed columnist who appeared frequently as a television commentator. He was also a White House correspondent for the Times, its Rome bureau chief, and, for five years, its chief restaurant critic. He is the author of three New York Times bestsellers. In July 2021, he became a full professor at Duke University, teaching media-oriented classes in the school of public policy. He continues to write his popular weekly newsletter for the Times and to produce occasional essays as one of the newspaper's official Contributing Opinion Writers.

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ISBN 13	9781455532704
ISBN 10	1455532703
Titre	Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be
Auteur	Frank Bruni
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Type de reliure	Hardback
Éditeur	Little, Brown & Company
Année de publication	2015-03-17
Nombre de pages	224
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