Malcolm Gladwell

Like create a special backdoor for them and also play so many. And I think the answer is in the kind of sports they're playing. So what sports are, if they have all these rowing. Rowing, got it. Heavyweight and lightweight rowing. And each team is like... What is it, 25? I've forgotten. Some incredible number. Fencing. Okay. Fencing. Sailing. Oh, got it. How do you feel about sailing? Sailing.

Like create a special backdoor for them and also play so many. And I think the answer is in the kind of sports they're playing. So what sports are, if they have all these rowing. Rowing, got it. Heavyweight and lightweight rowing. And each team is like... What is it, 25? I've forgotten. Some incredible number. Fencing. Okay. Fencing. Sailing. Oh, got it. How do you feel about sailing? Sailing.

Tennis.

Tennis.

Interesting, tennis. Now, rugby. Now, rugby, so you guys are Africans, particularly you, you come, you guys are serious rugby playing people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Understand that in the American context. Oh, no.

Interesting, tennis. Now, rugby. Now, rugby, so you guys are Africans, particularly you, you come, you guys are serious rugby playing people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Understand that in the American context. Oh, no.

Rugby's a very different animal. Yes. Not playing rugby and, you know, field hockey, squash. You can see where I'm going with this. So they reserve. You add up all those numbers, men and women, right? Coaches, kids sitting on the bench. You add all those numbers up and you see that they have reserved an entire team.

Rugby's a very different animal. Yes. Not playing rugby and, you know, field hockey, squash. You can see where I'm going with this. So they reserve. You add up all those numbers, men and women, right? Coaches, kids sitting on the bench. You add all those numbers up and you see that they have reserved an entire team.

Huge pool of admission slots for white people with enough money to be good at white people sports. Yeah. It's the whole thing is like so hilariously obvious. And like they're pretending for years they've been pretending. Oh, no, no. We we believe the athlete brings something special to the camp. No bullshit. Like I do. I do this thing with tennis.

Huge pool of admission slots for white people with enough money to be good at white people sports. Yeah. It's the whole thing is like so hilariously obvious. And like they're pretending for years they've been pretending. Oh, no, no. We we believe the athlete brings something special to the camp. No bullshit. Like I do. I do this thing with tennis.

In order to play Division I tennis in this country, you must have played junior tennis. Okay. In order to play junior tennis, your parents have to – I did the math – have to spend at a minimum $50,000 a year on your game and probably north of $100,000.

In order to play Division I tennis in this country, you must have played junior tennis. Okay. In order to play junior tennis, your parents have to – I did the math – have to spend at a minimum $50,000 a year on your game and probably north of $100,000.

When you add up all the things you – so basically what Harvard is saying is we've got whatever it is, 12 spots on our tennis team, which we are reserving for people who have parents capable of spending $100,000 a year on their games. Like, it's like – I mean –

When you add up all the things you – so basically what Harvard is saying is we've got whatever it is, 12 spots on our tennis team, which we are reserving for people who have parents capable of spending $100,000 a year on their games. Like, it's like – I mean –

If you don't do this, if you have an elite school that just takes the smartest kids, what that means is your school's culture is going to turn over with each new wave of smart immigrants that come. So you're going to be all Jewish in the 50s, then you're going to be all Korean now, and you're going to be all Nigerian in like 10 years.

If you don't do this, if you have an elite school that just takes the smartest kids, what that means is your school's culture is going to turn over with each new wave of smart immigrants that come. So you're going to be all Jewish in the 50s, then you're going to be all Korean now, and you're going to be all Nigerian in like 10 years.

I think it's an amazing thing.

I think it's an amazing thing.

But you can see if your conception of what your school is is a place where you have lots of preppy kids in blazers, you can't play that game.

But you can see if your conception of what your school is is a place where you have lots of preppy kids in blazers, you can't play that game.