On the evening of March 24th,
MERSD will hold a panel discussion and community conversation about the book Where
You Go Isn’t Who You’ll Be – An Antidote to
the College Admissions Mania. The message is an important one for all of us who are
helping students manage the stresses of the college search and find their
pathway to success! Get a preview of the book from Frank Bruni’s New York
Times editorial How to Survive
the College Admissions Madness.
I
hope you will read the book and join us for our discussion about how we can
work together as a community to help achieve a learning environment that has a
balanced focus on academic achievement and social emotional well-being.
MERSD Community Read & Book Discussion
Where You Go Isn’t Who You’ll Be –
An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
Thursday March 24th
MERMHS @ 7:00pm
Discounted Books Available from The Bookshop of Beverly Farms
Copies are available for purchase at the MERMHS Library
Copies are available for purchase at the MERMHS Library
About the
Book
Where You Go Isn’t Who You’ll Be –
An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
By 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.
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.
