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Name: Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be
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Author: Frank Bruni

Frank Bruni

An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

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What’s in it for me? Get a better understanding of how the college admissions process has gotten out of hand.

Getting into a prestigious college has always been somewhat competitive, but it’s not hard to see just how crazy things have become these days. After all, major headlines have been made over parents’ elaborate schemes involving bribes and falsified test scores in order to give their kids an advantage in the college admissions process.

So what’s really going on and how did things become so competitive that parents are resorting to breaking the law? Author Frank Bruni lays out many of the reasons behind the record number of college applicants, the record low acceptance rates, and why parents are so desperate for their students to get into the “right” school.

You’ll also find out why much of the desperation to get into elite colleges is misplaced, and why your potential alma mater’s reputation has little to do with your success or satisfaction in life. So before you fork out a fortune on your higher education, learn why some experts and graduates believe the real secret to success lies outside the Ivy League.

In these blinks, you’ll find out

why certain college rankings can’t be trusted;
why serious involvement in a single college organization may be a sign of future success; and
what the “funnel effect” is.

The Ivy League universities aren’t the only producers of successful people.

Ask people which are the elite American colleges – the places said to put people on a fast-track to success – and most will think of the Ivy League schools of Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.

This widespread perception of Ivy League superiority is hard to ignore, even for people who are well aware that you can get a world-class education outside of these schools.

Take Chris Christie, for example. When the former New Jersey governor was helping his son Andrew consider his options, the question arose as to whether Christie would send his son to Princeton if he was accepted. After all, Christie’s alma mater was the University of Delaware, a school that had both served him well and provided him with cherished experiences.

Nevertheless, Christie felt that public perception was perhaps more important. He told Andrew that, even though he would receive a fine education if he chose to follow in his father’s footsteps, he would probably have to work harder to prove himself. So, even though he didn’t necessarily consider it fair, he advised his son to go to Princeton if they accepted him and to take advantage of the opportunities that came with the perception of Ivy League students being the best of the best.

In reality, however, successful people come from a wide range of schools, and certainly not just the Ivy League.

If we take a look at the people who were running Fortune 500 companies in 2014, only one CEO from the top ten businesses received their undergraduate degree from an Ivy League school. If we expand that number to look at the top 30 businesses, we’ll see more Ivy League representatives, but the list of alma maters continues to be diverse enough to include schools like the University of Minnesota, the University of Central Oklahoma and Penn State.

When we look at the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500 list, only 30 percent of US-born CEOs attended Ivy League schools.

Sure, being accepted to an Ivy League school may give a student an advantage in life, but they’re far from being the only places producing successful adults.

Bias, not rising standards, makes acceptance into elite schools tough.

So, how many applicants are accepted to Ivy League schools? Well, in 2015, only 5.05 percent of the total applicants were accepted into Stanford, which marked their lowest acceptance rate in history at the time. As for Yale, their acceptance rate dropped from 20 percent in the late-1980s to just 6.5 percent in 2015.

But before you assume that this is just another sign of how elite and prestigious these schools are, let’s take a closer look at the great lengths to which these schools go to arrive at these numbers.

Parents and students feel the need to take extreme measures to get into the right college.

Since the applicant pool for colleges is continually growing, the traditional advantages like good test scores and grades just won’t cut it anymore.

At least, that’s what most applicants are sensing these days. And that’s why, to stand out from an increasingly competitive crowd, many are turning to expensive college prep courses.

School rankings often do more harm than good.

With students feeling so pressured to get into the “best” school, that is, the one they think will give them the greatest advantage in life, all eyes are on the college rankings to reveal which school really is the crème de la crème.

But as it turns out, even those working for the best-ranked schools will admit that these rankings aren’t helpful.

The lack of diversity at elite schools can mean that students don’t leave their comfort zones.

When you take a close look at the rankings, it raises an important question: What do we really gain from our time at a university? Is it all about the career advantages or the quality of education? Is it about what goes on in the classroom or outside of it?

Former Starbucks Coffee CEO Howard Schultz says the real opportunity provided by college was the chance for him to expand his horizons and get out of his comfort zone. Many would agree.

Intelligence and a prestigious education don’t guarantee that you’ll thrive in life.

Have you ever been stuck in a conversation with someone who goes on and on about his prestigious education, detailing every last academic achievement seeming intent on impressing you with his intelligence?

While they may believe that a fancy alma mater and intelligence may add up to being an impressive success, this isn’t always the case.

Elite schools even have a tendency to narrow students’ horizons.

For most college students, their period of higher education is also a transitional one, as it serves in many ways as a bridge between childhood and adulthood. Traditionally, someone’s college years are a time for discovering their interests and finding a career to pursue.

These days, however, there’s an increasing amount of people who see college as being of value for one specific thing: money.

Smaller schools can have a personal touch and allow curiosity to thrive.

John Green, the bestselling novelist of The Fault in Our Stars, has fond memories of his time at Kenyon College, a relatively small school in Ohio, which he attended in the late 1990s. Green was especially appreciative of the way he was able to connect with his professors – something that would have been far more difficult with a larger student body.

In particular, Green valued the experience he had with Fred Kluge, the professor for his Intro to Fiction Writing class. At one point, Green was disheartened after being rejected by one of the more advanced writing classes. So Kluge took the time to invite Green to his house, sit him down, and give him a thorough and personal assessment of his potential as a writer.

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Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be (2015) casts a critical eye over the mania surrounding the college admissions process in the United States. For decades, students and parents have become increasingly convinced that future success is dependent upon landing a spot at the most prestigious schools, while colleges have become engaged in their own competition for a spot at the top of the school rankings. Bruni argues that this has led to an out-of-control system that has caused people to lose sight of the real benefits of higher education.

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I think US News & World Report will go down as one of the most destructive things that ever happened to higher education – Adam Weinberg, president of Denison University

—Frank Bruni

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Parents who want their kids to flourish in college

Über den Autor

Frank Bruni has been a long-time contributor for the New York Times, having been the paper’s chief restaurant critic from 2004 to 2009 as well as an op-ed columnist. His other books include the bestsellers Born Round (2009) and Ambling Into History (2002).

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