Free Press</br></br>Product Description</br></br>A groundbreaking manifesto about what our nation??s top schools should be?but aren??t?providing: ??The ex-Yale professor effectively skewers elite colleges?? their brainy but soulless students (those ??sheep??)?? pushy parents?? and admissions mayhem?? (<I>People</I>).<BR><BR>As a professor at Yale?? William Deresiewicz saw something that troubled him deeply. His students?? some of the nation??s brightest minds?? were adrift when it came to the big questions: how to think critically and creatively and how to find a sense of purpose. Now he argues that elite colleges are turning out conformists without a compass.<BR> <BR><I>Excellent Sheep</I> takes a sharp look at the high-pressure conveyor belt that begins with parents and counselors who demand perfect grades and culminates in th