As winter draws to a close, college admissions officers are wrapping up the invisible but critical process of diving into applicants’ files, reading every word, and looking for reasons to say “yes” as a new class takes shape. But what are they really searching for? Dean Lee Coffin pulls back the curtain with Vassar’s admissions dean and Middlebury’s admissions director for a lively discussion of what they call “the work of the work.”