Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

　　本書討論許多高中生想盡辦法擠進知名大學已經到了走火入魔的地步，且引發家長、學校、老師間的恐怖焦慮，這種以學校排名而非自我認知的價值觀做為選校選系的準則，確實影響了未來人生的發展。作者針對許多畢業生出校門後的發展作了統計調查，發現並非所有名校畢業的學生皆如眾人想像，有著保障的機會與發展。這個殘忍的現實告訴我們一點，你唸哪間學校並不代表你這個人，即便不是系出名門，成功者往往因著自己的才能及熱情能有更好的發揮。<博客來編譯>

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.

Frank Bruni has been an op-ed columnist for the New York Times since 2011. He previously worked as the newspaper’s Rome bureau chief, Sunday magazine staff writer, one of its White House correspondents, and its chief restaurant critic. Bruni is the author of two previous bestsellers, the memoir Born Round and a chronicle of George W. Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign, Ambling into History.