Join us at the Stamford Ferguson Library this Wednesday, April 15th @ 7PM for an author talk with NYTimes writer, Frank Bruni.
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.
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
who didn't attend the most exclusive schools, he demonstrates that many
kinds of colleges-large public universities, tiny hideaways in the
hinterlands-serve as ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make
the most of them. What matters in the end are a student's efforts in and
out of the classroom, not the gleam of his or her diploma.
