Editor’s Note: Bestselling author, Jeff Selingo, sat down with Grown and Flown to discuss Five Things College Admissions Officers Look for and Three They Don’t. How to sit in the passenger seat of your teen’s college process without driving the car Applying and going to college is a complex, confusing, and insanely expensive process. Teens need to be taking the lead and make the decisions, but because of the expense and complexity, there is a role for parents to play.