Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits.

In Who Gets In and Why, journalist and higher education expert Jeffrey Selingo dispels entrenched notions of how to compete and win at the admissions game, and reveals that teenagers and parents have much to gain by broadening their notion of what qualifies as a “good college.” Hint: it’s not all about the sticker on the car window.

Selingo, who was embedded in three different admissions offices—