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This American Life: How I Got Into College

Students all over are starting college this month, and some of them still have a nagging question: what, exactly, got me in? An admissions officer tells us the most wrongheaded things applicants try. And Michael Lewis has the incredible story of how a stolen library book got one man — Emir Kamenica — into his dream school.

source: www.thisamericanlife.org

Tags: academia, audio, emir-kamenica, michael-lewis, this-american-life

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