Admissions Beat

A podcast by Lee Coffin • Vice President and Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid at Dartmouth College

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Education Kids & Family

90 Episodes

  1. Overture: Your College Search Begins

    Published: 1/24/2023

  2. Final Tips for Seniors, Part 2: Making Sense of Early Decisions

    Published: 11/29/2022

  3. Final Tips for Seniors, Part 1

    Published: 11/22/2022

  4. Decoding Transcripts

    Published: 11/15/2022

  5. What We Wish We Knew: Advice for Today’s College Applicants from Three College Students

    Published: 11/8/2022

  6. ‘One Factor Among Many’

    Published: 11/3/2022

  7. Dollars and Sense: A Financial Aid Primer

    Published: 11/1/2022

  8. Finding Your Place

    Published: 10/25/2022

  9. The Pull of Prestige

    Published: 10/18/2022

  10. Telling Your Story

    Published: 10/11/2022

  11. A Road Map through the Testing Landscape

    Published: 10/4/2022

  12. A High School Senior Interviews the Dean

    Published: 9/27/2022

  13. Welcome to Senior Fall: It’s College Application Season!

    Published: 9/20/2022

  14. Decisions Are Out!

    Published: 4/1/2022

  15. Marching Forward

    Published: 3/22/2022

  16. Let's Hear It for the Humanities

    Published: 3/1/2022

  17. Junior Kickoff Part 2

    Published: 2/21/2022

  18. Junior Kickoff Part 1

    Published: 2/14/2022

  19. Playbook for Athletic Recruitment

    Published: 2/7/2022

  20. Family Reunion

    Published: 2/1/2022

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On the Admissions Beat, veteran dean of admissions Lee Coffin from Dartmouth College and a range of guests provide high school students and parents, as well as their counselors and other mentors, with "news you can use" at each step on the pathway to college. With a welcoming, reassuring perspective and an approach intended to build confidence in prospective applicants, Dean Coffin offers credible information, insights, and guidance—from the earliest days of the college search, to applications, decision-making, and arrival on campus. He does so by drawing on nearly 30 years of experience as an admissions leader at some of the nation's most prestigious institutions.