Who Gets In and Why Quotes

“An elite college now is almost exclusively defined by how hard it is to get into. It's like the rope line at a hot nightclub—it's about having the ticket to get in. Students are blinded by the labels. But why does it matter whether you get into the club if you hate the music playing inside?”
― Jeffrey J. Selingo, Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

“Whereas in 1995, 10 percent of high school students applied to seven or more colleges, by 2016, some 35 percent did, thanks partly to the ease of online applications. But”
― Jeffrey J. Selingo, Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

“The best essays are honest slice-of-life stories, both entertaining and serious, that tell admissions officers something they don’t learn from another part of the application.”
― Jeffrey J. Selingo, Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

“the odds are impossibly long for anyone to land an athletics scholarship. Nearly 8 million kids played high school sports in 2019. But only 495,000 of them ended up competing in college, and many fewer—just 150,000 or about 2 percent of those who participated in high school—received scholarships, according to the National Collegiate Athletic Association. If you’re expecting a financial return on the investment in your kid’s sports, you’re better off putting your money into a plain-vanilla savings account.”
― Jeffrey J. Selingo, Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions

“used its application in 2018–19 submitted multimedia portfolios of their work.”
― Jeffrey J. Selingo, Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions