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Non-fiction Review: Where You Go is not Who You'll Be

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Title: Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania Author: Frank Bruni Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2015. 218 pages Source: Library Publisher's 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 WHERE YOU GO IS NOT WHO YOU'LL BE, 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. My Review: Every parent of a kid finishing high school needs to read this book, or at least the blurb. Bruni's message is important, whether you are one of the parents gett