Looking Beyond the College Rankings

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 21, 2015

Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, and too many young people believe that their futures will be determined by which colleges admit them. In Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni provides a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes.

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