Robert Evans

Maybe that's not a thing.

Like they just, they couldn't handle me.

I'm the golden boy.

It's important to eventually self-reflect on things, so I guess he did, kinda.

We'll give him a point for that.

I wish we had more good anecdotes from bills like youth and childhood, but yeah, that does imply a lot.

Anyway, he graduates Harvard with his BA in 1988.

His undergraduate thesis is titled Scaling the Ivy Wall, the Jewish and Asian Experience in Harvard Admissions.

And the paper starts with him comparing the experiences that Jews had trying to gain admittance to Harvard in the 20s with the experience that Asian students had had trying to do the same in the 1980s.

And...

We've talked a lot on the show about how, like, if you ever get a chance to read a novel that a political pundit you dislike has written or like, I guess, has written, you should do it because it's like a window into their soul.

That's sort of the same with a thesis.

You can tell a lot about where a young person's head is at with a paper like this.

And I'm going to start.

Here's a quote from Bill's thesis.

As one of the oldest and perhaps the most notable of this country's academic institutions, Harvard represents the gateway to elite status and to making it a modern-day American society.

One need only look at the disproportionate numbers of presidents, Nobel laureates, and chairman of Fortune 500 companies who have graduated from Harvard to understand the power of the Harvard degree.

As a result, admission to Harvard has become the target of groups seeking upward mobility.

And from that, you can really see that's why Bill goes to Harvard is because he he wants to get guaranteed a spot in the elite.

Right.