The purpose of this qualitative case study was to describe and further our understanding of how a large urban/suburban university-district partnership fostered admission processes that led to a more diversified school leadership pipeline. Across findings was the strong joint decision-making and collaboration thus creating a robust system of admissions for the beginning stage of the principal pipeline. When universities and districts are mutually looking to prepare dynamic, diverse school leaders, they would benefit from real, profound relationship and partnership building. This case demonstrated how a contextualized, positive university-district relationship can result in the sum being greater than the parts.