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SUMMARY: The college admissions process can be riddled with anxiety and stress for high school seniors and their parents. But in the book “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be,” author and New York Times columnist Frank Bruni argues it doesn’t have to be this way. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Bruni to discuss how the obsession with getting into the right school may not pay off.
JEFFREY BROWN (NewsHour): Where did you go to college? And more to the point, for many young people now awaiting decisions, where do you hope to go, and how much do you have riding on it?
A new book with the provocative title “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be” proposes that the whole college admissions process is out of whack and even that rejection can be a wonderful thing.
Its author is New York Times columnist Frank Bruni, who, for the record, attended the University of North Carolina.
So, madness, nonsense, those are just some of the words you use for what you see as a broken system. What’s the brunt of the argument? What happened to our system?
FRANK BRUNI, Author, “Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be“: What happened to our system is, we became brand-obsessed. We became convinced, or at least parents did, that if their kids didn’t get into the right colleges, they wouldn’t have as bright futures, they wouldn’t make as much money.
We somehow bought that this moment in late March, early April, when you find out where you’re going to go to school, sets the whole trajectory for your life. And it’s so untrue and it’s the source of so much unnecessary anxiety. And that’s what I go into in the book.
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