A new podcast called Gatecrashers is being unveiled about college admissions. At this posting, there are so far episodes about the history of such admissions at Columbia, Princeton, and Dartmouth - with more to come.* From the Gatecrashers description:
What topic is more controversial, sensational, and endlessly captivating than college admissions? It’s a billion-dollar industry. It sends celebrities to jail. The Supreme Court is weighing in on who gets in and why. We might think we have read all there is to read on the issue, and heard all there is to hear. But if you want to understand everything that’s going on with college admissions today—not just the battles over diversity, but the very existence of college applications, the essays and interviews and standardized tests—you have to look at the first group that tried to diversify elite schools. You have to look at the Jews. Gatecrashers, an 8-part podcast series launching September thirteenth, twenty twenty-two, tells the story of how Jews fought for acceptance at elite schools, and how the Jewish experience in the Ivy League shaped American higher education, and shaped America at large.
https://ia601402.us.archive.org/25/items/big-ten/columia%20admissions.mp3
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*The full set of the Gatecrashers podcasts can be heard at:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gatecrashers/id1640617083.
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