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Oct 30, 2026
Matthew RascoffHOST
Almost every institution of higher education is designed for the wealthy.
Matthew RascoffHOST
Including my own, all of the Ivy Plus has more students in the top 1% than the bottom 50%, and it's been that way for decades, and it has not moved.
Matthew RascoffHOST
Despite investments in financial aid, there's been no movement.
Matthew RascoffHOST
Stanford has 19% first-gen students in its incoming class.
Thomas CaleelHOST
There are plenty of great paths to success in this world.
Thomas CaleelHOST
I'm not saying that going to an Ivy Plus is the only path, it's a guarantee to success, because it's not.
Thomas CaleelHOST
But if that is a goal that your child wants, if that is a goal that you want, you need to step back and think about this early.
Thomas CaleelHOST
You need to make sure you are supporting and empowering their success.
Thomas CaleelHOST
We're happy to do it, but find the person that works for you who can pull that out of them, draw that out of them, and get them empowered so that they have a much clearer picture of where they're going.
Thomas CaleelHOST
Because remember, there is no time machine.
Thomas CaleelHOST
There is no way for, for us to turn this back, and we want your child to be successful, whether that's going to a state flagship school, whether that's going to a small liberal arts college, whether it's going to one of the Ivy Pluses.
Thomas CaleelHOST
We want them to achieve their goals, and we are here to help you with that and give you the candid advice through this podcast, through our social media, through our calls.
Dan-el Padilla PeraltaGUEST
But in true materialist fashion, I would say I am more concerned with the foundations for the kinds of literary cultural expressivity around ancient texts that we need to establish in order to make it so that there are more translations, right? So rather than setting as an objective the proliferation or promulgation of ever more translations that, um, speak in their marketing materials, um, uh, about the, you know, distinctive status held by the translator, I would say we need to address ourselves to the material conditions that are responsible for the elevation of some voices over others, and we need to do so in a way that is institutional in nature, right? So I, I spend time with high schoolers every summer.
Dan-el Padilla PeraltaGUEST
Um, and for me, one of the justifications for that work is that I think it's important to f- to, to think about what in normal classic speak, uh, gets termed outreach in a much more capacious way than is customarily the case among, you know, people at Ivy Plus institutions or whatnot.
Dan-el Padilla PeraltaGUEST
But that's not the only reason I do that.
Dan-el Padilla PeraltaGUEST
I do it because I think it's also important to recognize that the work of cultivating the kinds of sensibilities that attach to thinking about the deep past and thinking about our relations to the past is something that has to be modeled in an institutional setting for people, right? So when we teach these students, I've taught them, uh, in a summer seminar at Columbia, I've taught them in a summer seminar here, we are trying to do more than just extol to them, you know, the virtues of reading these texts.
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Paper Abstract.
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The high-income admissions advantage at Ivy Plus colleges is driven by three factors.
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One, preferences for children of alumni.
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Two, weight placed on non-academic credentials.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
As commentator Naveen says, the main flaw in the SAT and ACT is that they run into big-time ceiling effects and can't differentiate top 1% from top 0.1% or top 0.01%.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
There is a very easy and obvious fix for that, which are academic credentials that do differentiate at that level.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
What, like it's hard? Even if we can't do better than this, and we have to do exactly zero innovation, we can give the students eyeing Ivy Plus-level colleges the GRE or the LSAT or the AIM, check their AP scores, and so on.
Zvi MowshowitzHOST
Do not saturate your benchmarks.
Grant VenerableGUEST
Dubbing this proclivity the Harvard problem may be just a bit reductive, that is logically reducing everything to a few little, uh, select morsels.
Grant VenerableGUEST
A broader academic cliques, such as selective liberal arts colleges or Ivy Plus universities, the eight Ivy League members, along with prestigious institutions like MIT and Stanford, all hold an outsized role in shaping perceptions of the sector.
Grant VenerableGUEST
Uh, flagships, flagships being the preeminent institution of any state university or university system, they call it the flagship.
Grant VenerableGUEST
The flagship and their issues may crowd out other state colleges in local discourse.
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Grant VenerableGUEST
Reporters' own experience could play a role.
Grant VenerableGUEST
Uh, and then s- uh, several writers say, um, uh, looked at the alma maters of reporters at major newspapers who wrote about student lo- uh, student loans.
Grant VenerableGUEST
Half attended either a public flagship or an Ivy Plus institution.
Grant VenerableGUEST
Mm-hmm.