Good for Business Podcast - Episode 63 - Spike Harris

Part of that, I think part of some concern from the parents, which is they may not understand the ecosystem at MSMS, is that my kid's quiet and shy and probably isn't going to do good on the interview.

Well,

I'm not saying most of the kids don't do good in the interview, but when they get through the first couple of minutes, the majority of your interview kids are quiet.

And my oldest daughter, Allison, great ACT score, but she's like her dad.

I imagine she destroyed the interview and did great, but she may not have had some of the other deep math skills that other people have.

Whereas my daughter, Katie, was more of the absolute cliche MS, MS.

I like math.

I like science, that sort of

thing.

Engineer type.

So y'all are used to that.

I think a lot of people because, you know, and it's hard to put statistics on it, but I can tell you from orientation days and parent days that like a third of the parents are MSMS type people.

They're engineers, you know, they're hardcore.

There's another third that are just kind of the dad that's like, I don't know how any of us got here.

And then a third, much like the students, you all have some all-world students.

You all have American class violin, pianist, violin

players, whatever that word is,

piano players, artists.

And a lot of times there's kids for sports that come in who are – The kids are just the all-around best kid at their small school.

Actually, this weekend, our swim team is now going to state.

So they'll be going to Tupelo at the aquatic place there.

Yeah, these are competitive kids.

Oh, yeah.

A couple years back, our tennis team was number one in the state.

Wrestling.