This article explores the research question: ”Who goes to college by which channel?” We utilize the Taiwanese Higher Education Database and use multinomial logit models to explore the characteristic differences among students who choose different channels to go to college. The examination entrance channel serves as a base for comparison. Given other things being equal, students who enter college by the school recommendation channel are more likely to have fathers who are professionals. These students also tend to graduate from private high schools, perform at least at a medium level or beyond academically in high school, study in a private university, and believe the strategy of choosing universities rather than major fields is not important. With regard to students entering college by the individual application channel, they tend to be mainlanders, their mothers received more years of education and their fathers tend to be white-collar working class or retired. They also tend to graduate from private high schools, being academically ranked among the top 10 in their high school classes, study in natural science, believe choosing university is no more important than choosing one's major field, and perform better on the university entrance test. The scholarly contributions and policy implications are discussed in the paper.