Signed copy of New York Times bestselling author Frank Bruni's latest book Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania

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 strategrems, 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...

Bruni, a bestselling author and a columnist for the New York Times, shows that the Ivy League has not monopoly on corner offices, governor's 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 students efforts in and out of the classroom, not the gleam of his or her diploma. 

"Frank Bruni provides the perfect course correction for students and parents who get sucked into the college admissions frenzy." - Katie Couric