Jeff Selingo, Author at Open Campus

Jeff Selingo

Jeff has written about higher education for more than two decades and is a New York Times bestselling author of three books. His latest, Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, was published in September 2020. A regular contributor to The Atlantic, Jeff is a special advisor for innovation and professor of practice at Arizona State University. He also co-hosts the podcast FutureU.

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By Jeff SelingoDecember 8, 2020December 11, 2020

Students aren’t the only ones going into debt to pay for college. So, too, are parents.

By Jeff SelingoNovember 23, 2020November 23, 2020

The colleges most likely to return to standardized testing after this is over? The most selective campuses plus big publics with lots of applicants.

By Jeff SelingoNovember 5, 2020November 5, 2020

What are the similarities between forecasting an election in a pandemic with so much early voting and forecasting the incoming class of a college next fall?

By Jeff SelingoOctober 30, 2020October 30, 2020

The pivot to remote education has diminished the uniqueness of a residential campus model. Colleges will need to step away from the herd.

By Jeff SelingoOctober 17, 2020December 15, 2021

On many campuses, the loss of so many first-time students this fall will mean a smaller sophomore class next fall. As a result, many colleges will look to make up that shortfall with a larger-than-usual freshman class next year.

By Jeff SelingoSeptember 19, 2020September 21, 2020

Control what you can. Worry less about the test. Write authentic essays.

By Jeff SelingoSeptember 6, 2020September 8, 2020

You probably don’t think colleges are in the yield management business. But they are.

By Jeff SelingoAugust 26, 2020August 28, 2020

What should we make of very early numbers on applications? Who knows, but perhaps the uncertainty is encouraging students to get a jump start on the process.

By Jeff SelingoAugust 15, 2020August 17, 2020

Parents and counselors don’t trust that schools are really test optional. That’s why many are still pulling out all the stops to get to a testing site this fall.