Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions | Interview with Author Jeff Selingo

Higher education's admissions process feels mysterious and secretive. Is attending an elite school a necessity? What are your chances at getting into such a college or university? In _Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions_, author Jeff Selingo discusses the process of getting into college, including randomness in selection, promoting one's best self, and making the most of one's selective choices. Other topics discussed: overmatching, the "solid middle," college rankings, what an admissions office is like, and his work in higher education journalism. He talks with Dr. Jed Macosko, academic director of AcademicInfluence.com and professor of physics at Wake Forest University. Jeff Selingo has worked for years covering higher education for The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and other prestigious publications; He is the author of several bestselling books on higher education, including There Is Life After College (https://amzn.com/B012ODBR7A/&tag=infl...) and College (Un)Bound (https://amzn.com/0544027078/&tag=infl.... Jeff Selingo's latest book, Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions {https://amzn.com/1982116293/&tag=infl...)