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Why families stress too much about college admissions

Clip: 3/17/2015 | 6m 38s

The college admissions process can be riddled with anxiety and stress.

The college admissions process can be riddled with anxiety and stress for high school seniors and their parents. But in the book “Where You Go is Not Who You’ll Be,” author and New York Times columnist Frank Bruni argues it doesn’t have to be this way. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Bruni to discuss how the obsession with getting into the right school may not pay off.

03/17/2015 | Rating NR

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