article_snippet: (CNN)During a conversation with a professor at an Ivy League college, a mother nudges a mother daughter to share how her daughter's president of her daughter 's "survivors-of-bulimia" group.
article_snippet: Hoping to impress the Yale admissions committee, a student writes an essay about the time her daughter was so engrossed in a discussion with a French teacher her daughter admired that her daughter urinated on her daughter instead of interrupting the teacher or leaving the room.
article_snippet: You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania" by award-winning New York Times op-ed columnist and bestselling author Frank Bruni.
article_snippet: Those examples, author Frank Bruni said, should really be "wake-up calls" for any parents or students currently engaged in, or one day likely  to be consumed by, the "What school will I get into?" annual game.
article_snippet: Bruni said a big reason for writing the book was that when he surveyed the accomplished people he has known and interviewed, there didn't seem to be any "exaggerated concentration" of people coming from the most selective colleges.
article_snippet: A letter to our son as our son leaves for college .
article_snippet: Bruni hopes parents and students read he , but he especially hopes graduating seniors read his book before parents and students head off to school.
article_snippet: So my dream audience are kids going off to college, and kids who are going off to college ... being made to think about more than the name on kids who are going off to college ... sweatshirt and being made to ponder what kids who are going off to college ...'re going to do with this extraordinary privilege.
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