Headline Headaches? Don't Let Them Derail Your Search

EPISODE · Sep 16, 2025 · 47 MIN

Headline Headaches? Don't Let Them Derail Your Search

from Admissions Beat · host Matt DeGreef, Jacques Steinberg

The national admissions beat is abuzz with fast-breaking stories as the next admissions cycle gets underway. “The fundamentals are the fundamentals,” AB host and Dartmouth Dean Lee Coffin tells recurring co-host and former New York Times reporter Jacques Steinberg. “But some policies are in motion.” The AB duo is joined by Matt DeGreef, longtime college counselor at Middlesex School in Massachusetts and a former admission and financial aid officer at Harvard, for a conversation about how best to consume recent news about higher education as you make and shape your college list. 

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