Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

Episode 75 of the The Enrollment Spectrum Podcast podcast, hosted by Peter Baron & Hans Mundahl, titled "Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions" was published on September 15, 2020 and runs 44 minutes.

September 15, 2020 ·44m · The Enrollment Spectrum Podcast

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Join us for a conversation with Jeff Selingo. Jeff has written about higher education for two decades. He is the author of two New York Times bestsellers, a contributor to The Atlantic and the Washington Post, and a special advisor at Arizona State University. Jeff was a keynote speaker at our annual conference last fall and was a guest on the podcast back in episode 59.

Jeff's new book Who Gets In & Why: A Year Inside College Admissions comes out on September 15.

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