How do staff members at a selective college near Boston decide which applicants to admit? Forced to cut costs, Max Danker, Dean of Admissions, and Psychology Professor Marina Dubrova decide to apply her theory that people will rise to others' expectations of them. Theory becomes practice when Max and his staff admit some of their applicants randomly, while those admitted the traditional way have their recommendations and achievements outside of the classroom carefully screened. What group will Katie Lorko, an applicant uniquely connected to one Admissions staffer fall into? Can Max and Marina implement and evaluate their experiment before the Administration finds out? Written by a retired MIT Associate Director of Admissions, this book explains how and why colleges admit applicants.