Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

By: Frank Bruni

Narrated by: Frank Bruni

Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years.

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.

In Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be, Frank Bruni explains why this mindset is wrong, giving students and their parents a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes.

Bruni, a bestselling author and a columnist for the New York Times, shows that the Ivy League has no monopoly on corner offices, governors' mansions, or the most prestigious academic and scientific grants. Through statistics, surveys, and the stories of hugely successful people, he demonstrates that many kinds of colleges serve as ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make the most of them. What matters in the end are students' efforts in and out of the classroom, not the name on their diploma.

Where you go isn't who you'll be. Americans need to hear that--and this indispensable manifesto says it with eloquence and respect for the real promise of higher education.

A True Antidote

I was rejected from Harvard, Princeton and Duke. This book really helped me that my life didn’t end with those rejections–it has simply begun with them.

Eye-opening, profound

This book has helped me so much! I was already leaning toward the conclusions Bruni draws, but his extensive data collection and reporting has helped me be at peace with recognizing the near-scam higher education has become, and will, in turn, help me let my children become the happy people I want them to be. I’ve recommended this to so many people!

THIS

Exactly my sentiments, exactly my experience. Many roads lead to Rome, but regardless of the road, hard work is the yeast that raises the dough.

Terrific

This should be a mandatory read for parents and their kids anticipating college. Frank Bruni delivers again.

Excellent read

Anyone with kids should read this especially if they are in high school and planning to apply to colleges.