
Admissions Beat
by Lee Coffin • Vice President and Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid at Dartmouth College
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Odds and Ends
Jun 2, 2026
38m 54s
The Initial Friendship Market
May 12, 2026
50m 06s
The Transition from Home to College
May 5, 2026
41m 17s
The Things I Wish I'd Known...
Apr 28, 2026
59m 45s
Guiding the Voyage of Discovery: The College Finder
Apr 21, 2026
57m 41s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6/2/26 | ![]() Odds and Ends✨ | college admissionslistener questions+5 | Jen Simons | Bright Horizons College Coachnew Ivies+1 | — | college admissionslistener mailbag+5 | — | 38m 54s | |
| 5/12/26 | ![]() The Initial Friendship Market✨ | friendshipcollege transition+3 | Janice McCabe | Dartmouth CollegeMaking, Keeping, and Losing Friends | — | friendship marketcollege orientation+3 | — | 50m 06s | |
| 5/5/26 | ![]() The Transition from Home to College✨ | college transitionhigh school seniors+3 | dean of studentslongtime college counselor | Carleton | — | college searchpre-matrics+3 | — | 41m 17s | |
| 4/28/26 | ![]() The Things I Wish I'd Known...✨ | college admissionscampus visits+3 | Jacques Steinberg | Dartmouth College | New York | college searchadmissions tips+3 | — | 59m 45s | |
| 4/21/26 | ![]() Guiding the Voyage of Discovery: The College Finder✨ | college searchguidebooks+3 | — | The College FinderThe Fiske Guide | — | college finderFiske Guide+3 | — | 57m 41s | |
| 4/14/26 | ![]() Once a High School Principal, Now an Admissions Officer✨ | career transitioncollege admissions+3 | Robin Appleby | Dartmouth | — | college admissionshigh school principal+3 | — | 46m 09s | |
| 4/7/26 | ![]() AP or Honors, Which Looks Better for Colleges?✨ | college admissionshigh school curriculum+3 | Eric Monheim | St Mark’s SchoolDartmouth College+1 | — | AP coursesHonors courses+3 | — | 50m 59s | |
| 3/31/26 | ![]() Navigating April✨ | college admissionshigh school seniors+3 | Darryl Tiggle | Friends School of Baltimore | Baltimore | college admissionshigh school+5 | — | 34m 34s | |
| 3/24/26 | ![]() State You✨ | affordabilitystate universities+3 | Charlotte AlbrightSenior admissions leaders from UMass-Amherst+1 | UMass-AmherstUT-Austin+1 | — | state optioncollege affordability+3 | — | 48m 14s | |
| 3/17/26 | ![]() March Madness Part 2: "How Do You Decide?"✨ | selective admissionsdecision-making+3 | Jacques Steinberg | New York TimesDartmouth College | — | selective admissionsdecision-making+3 | — | 40m 43s | |
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| 3/10/26 | ![]() March Madness Part 1: Reading Season✨ | admissionscollege applications+3 | Dartmouth admission officers | Dartmouth College | — | admissionsapplications+5 | — | 47m 36s | |
| 3/3/26 | ![]() Follow Me!✨ | college admissionssocial media+4 | — | InstagramReddit+2 | — | college admissionssocial media+5 | — | 46m 27s | |
| 2/24/26 | ![]() Crunching Numbers | The college admissions process spits out lots of stats. Some numbers are straightforward, or they seem to be, while many data points require a nuanced interpretation from an inside source. Always, an ounce of context goes a long way towards appreciating what a number really means. The admissions deans from Colorado College and Dartmouth offer curious consumers of admissions data a cheat sheet on admissions numerology and how to "crunch" the stats that count. "Fair warning," they agree, "there is no code to crack!" | — | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | ![]() "Let's Just See What Happens..." | By definition, a guidance or college counselor offers counsel as a search takes shape and progresses. But sometimes that advice is resisted by parents and students. A "reach" or a "likely" designation can spark debate as aspirations meet the truth of a competitive forecast of admissibility. "Let's just see what happens..." or "you never know..." are common reactions of resistance. “I know," a veteran counselor replies. “I am not trying to insult you—I am trying to steer you towards good options." | — | ||||||
| 2/10/26 | ![]() Everything Counts! | "What counts?!" is the perennial question asked by parents and students as they wonder what makes a strong application. The answer, it turns out, is complicated. In a re-broadcast of a popular episode from Season 7, the admissions deans at Dartmouth and Brown ponder the nuanced question at hand as they share insights on what admissions officers are—and are not—considering as they build their college communities. Juniors, this conversation will help you discover which colleges match your interests and abilities, while seniors may be glad to know that the way you tell your own story is as important as the transcripts and test scores you submit. | — | ||||||
| 2/3/26 | ![]() Discovery Starts With Program | An effective college search starts with discovery. “Start your discovery with the fundamental thing about college,” AB host and Dartmouth Dean Lee Coffin advises. “You are going to college to study, and four ‘Ps’ should guide the first phase of the search. Focus on program, place, people, and price as the building blocks of discovery for each campus." Senior admission officers from Brandeis, Cornell, and Saint John’s of Annapolis join Coffin with tips on how to explore academic programs, classroom types or formats, and general education requirements. They also discuss how place shapes academic majors from campus to campus. “Understand how every institution offers its course of study in its own distinctive way,” Cornell’s director of undergraduate admissions counsels. “And focus on what gets you excited—what learning environment lets you do your best work?,” the Brandeis dean asks. | — | ||||||
| 1/27/26 | ![]() Junior Kickoff! | It's time for the high school class of 2027 to step into the college search spotlight. As juniors kick off their college search, AB resets its narrative spotlight to the discovery phase. In the ninth season premiere, Dartmouth's Lee Coffin welcomes recurring co-host Jacques Steinberg, a former higher ed reporter at the New York Times and the best-selling author of The Gatekeepers and The College Conversation, and Kate Boyle Ramsdell, director of college counseling at Noble and Greenough School in suburban Boston, for a wide-ranging primer on the college search. The trio outlines key milestones in the search calendar; shares tips on identifying criteria and "non-negotiable" factors; advises the development of an exploratory list as an opportunity to discover; and recommends a family's financial capacity as an essential list shaper. "Let's give you a toolkit to move from discovery to applying with a sense of purpose," Dean Coffin says. | — | ||||||
| 1/20/26 | ![]() A Primer on Financial Aid | In a preseason bonus episode, Admissions Beat cross-shares a YouTube conversation about financial aid from the parenting website Grown & Flown featuring AB host and Dartmouth Dean of Admissions & Financial Aid Lee Coffin and AB contributor Jacques Steinberg, former New York Times higher education journalist and bestselling author of The College Conversation. As G&F notes on its YouTube channel: "In this essential conversation…Steinberg and Coffin break down what families really need to know about paying for college. This is not about negotiating like you’re buying a car—it’s about understanding how colleges calculate affordability, how financial aid works behind the scenes, and how families can make informed, realistic decisions without panic." You can learn more about Grown and Flown’s video offerings here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7rv_839KAGNCD9-KpUtlZQ. | — | ||||||
| 12/9/25 | ![]() After Early | For the high school Class of ’26, the first college admissions milestone is at hand as early decisions—some binding, some not—land. In AB's season finale, a trio of deans and a college counselor unpack those decisions, offering guidance on the etiquette of an early acceptance as well as reassurance for those with an early outcome that extends a search into regular decision. | — | ||||||
| 12/2/25 | ![]() Channel Your Main Character Energy | From Grey's Anatomy to Bridgerton, Shonda Rhimes is television's storyteller extraordinaire. The Emmy winner visits AB for a lesson on how to channel main-character energy in an essay or interview. "What would you say to a teenager staring at a blank page, afraid their first draft won’t be good enough?," Dartmouth's Lee Coffin asks her. "Don't overthink your story," Shonda advises. "Just be you." | — | ||||||
| 11/25/25 | ![]() Strategies for the Road Ahead | "Getting in" is the clear goal for almost every applicant, but a college search also yields valuable lessons for the road beyond the admissions process itself. Angel Perez, CEO of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling, returns to Admissions Beat for a Thanksgiving week conversation with Dartmouth Dean Lee Coffin that plumbs the lessons of his career in admissions as strategies for the road ahead. "These are the things I wish I knew," Perez notes. | — | ||||||
| 11/18/25 | ![]() College Is Opportunity | For many students around the world, college presents a rare opportunity to change the arc of a life, to pursue the fabled “American Dream,” where anything can happen for anyone. But for those who are first in their families to attend and graduate from college—a cohort known as “first gen”—the promise of upward mobility means navigating what, for some, can be a mystifying admissions process. “I didn’t know what I didn’t know,” Dartmouth Dean Lee Coffin remembers about applying as a first-gen to college. Three veteran counselors from access-oriented schools and organizations in Boston, Los Angeles, and Kentucky join the AB host, sharing stories and tips about how to celebrate a unique life experience throughout an application and, later, on a college campus. As one observes, “It is time to showcase your tenacity, grit, and a desire for more.” | — | ||||||
| 11/11/25 | ![]() An Admissions Newsfeeding Frenzy | The media's admissions beat is a very active feed each fall as application deadlines approach. Headlines invite clicks, shares, chatter...and often anxiety as students and parents consume newsfeeds that brim with content. But every admissions-themed article is not "news you can use," and some advice columns need a dose of interpretation. This week, AB host Lee Coffin and producer Charlotte Albright have a conversation about several recent admissions articles from The New York Times and Forbes—and the headlines that sometimes accelerate applicant angst—as they ponder what these posts really highlight. “I want to offer a forum for explanation,” the Dartmouth dean observes, "and what nuggets of information are worth adopting as valuable guidance." | — | ||||||
| 11/4/25 | ![]() Admissions Quiz Bowl | Like most professions, college admissions has its own internal language, and that distinctive style of communicating is especially true as an application is read and summarized. In a special "quiz bowl" episode that fuses NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me with Jeopardy!, four veteran college counselors—all former admission officers who've read thousands of applications themselves—match wits to decode and decipher the unique lingo and shorthand that admissions officers use as they read an application. For applicants, AB Quiz Bowl offers an inside peek at the many things an admission officer notices, as well as some tips about how to emphasize the points you most want to highlight in your own application. | — | ||||||
| 10/28/25 | ![]() Can I Afford It?! | Sticker shock is real. Perceptions of college affordability represent one of the biggest concerns that most families navigate as a college search unfolds, with a 2024 survey of US voters revealing that 77% of Americans see college as “unaffordable.” This week, the pod tackles that (mis)perception as Admissions Beat becomes “Financial Aid Beat.” Justin Draeger, SVP for Affordability at Strada Education Foundation in Washington D.C., and one of the nation’s leading advocates for college affordability, joins Lee Coffin and Dino Koff from Dartmouth for a primer on the ins and outs of financial aid. The trio reassures families that higher ed really can be affordable as they offer tips on completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) and colleges' net price calculators, and they help translate some of the “jargony language” that muddies the financial aid conversation and causes unintended confusion. | — | ||||||
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7 placements across 7 markets.
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7 placements across 7 markets.
