Questions and Admissions: Reflections on 100,000 Admissions Decisions at Stanford

By Jean Fetter

Book Overview

The former Dean of Undergraduate Admissions at Stanford University provides an inside glimpse into the process of choosing a freshman class. Topics include affirmative action policies, standardized tests, alumni parents, donors, recruiting for varsity sports, and more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804731586
• ISBN13: 9780804731584
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

great background

a good book for those who want an understanding from the other side of the table about how the process works. If you're looking for a guidebook on how to apply (to Stanford or any other very selective school) this isn't the book for you because it doesn't talk about the nuts and bolts of your application. But if you want an overall understanding of how the top colleges approach the task of winnowing out the 20% of students who will be offered admission from the deluge of applicants, and have the intelligence to then apply what you've learned to your own situation this is the best book you'll find. Clearly some people are incapable of making the jump from the global to the specific; if the book doesn't apply directly to them or mentions a detail that has changed since the book was written they are disappointed (or see the book as rife with "errors"). If you fall in this group, don't get the book. But if you want to know what conversations amongst the admission staff cover and what they feel is important, this opens up a world seen by few.