‘The Gatekeepers’: How top colleges make their choices

New York Times senior editor Jacques Steinberg helps pull the curtain on the perplexing and highly competitive world of college admissions in "The Gatekeepers," helping prospective students and their parents hone their approach. Here's an excerpt.Wesleyan University Admissions Officer Ralph Figueroa reached over to the pile of applications that he had been assigned at random and pulled out the sub