why are rich people obsessed with getting into elite colleges? idk man but in this video, I kind of try to figure it out. I talk about elitism, socioeconomic class, and college admissions in America and of course the huge college admissions scandal of 2019 involving people like Olivia Jade and Lori Loughlin as well as schools like USC, Stanford, and Yale. Of course I had to bring up Gossip Girl for a pop culture reference too! Also why hasn't HBO done a documentary or biopic about this thing yet.
video about college endowments that is very informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSdQDbx4raM
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Wang, William L. “The Harvard Crimson Filings Show Athletes With High Academic Scores Have 83 Percent Acceptance Rate.” Filings Show Athletes With High Academic Scores Have 83 Percent Acceptance Rate | News, The Harvard Crimson, INC, 30 June 2018, www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/6/30/athlete-admissions/.
Gladwell, Malcolm. “Getting In.” The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2019, www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/10/10/getting-in.
Raj Chetty & John N. Friedman & Emmanuel Saez & Nicholas Turner & Danny Yagan, 2017. "Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility," Working Papers 2017-059, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group.
Bahr, Anna. “When the College Admissions Battle Starts at Age 3.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 29 July 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/07/30/upshot/when-the-college-admissions-battle-starts-at-age-3.html.
Ann L. Mullen (2009) Elite destinations: pathways to attending an Ivy League university, British Journal of Sociology of Education, 30:1, 15-27,DOI: 10.1080/01425690802514292
Thompson, Derek. “Does It Matter Where You Go to College?” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 17 Dec. 2018, www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/12/does-it-matter-where-you-go-college/577816/.
Stewart, Matthew. “The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 13 June 2018, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/06/the-birth-of-a-new-american-aristocracy/559130/.
Thompson, Derek. “The Inspirational 'It Doesn't Matter Where You Go to College' Meme Is Wrong.” The Atlantic, Atlantic Media Company, 3 Dec. 2015, www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/04/the-3-percent-crisis/389396/.
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~videos used (I do not own)~
Yale Campus Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdtNtCH0yMI&t=14s
Gossip Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpun0FUEUM&t=20s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SEo3pEWfTI&t=81s
Upper West Side Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Tp4rrUkow&t=41s
College Admissions Scandal Reporting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTvBNMDSzaM&t=38s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OTk_NCyxa0
Getting Into Kindergarten Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsuIbYLpuZI&t=164s
Amazon Footage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-lBvI6u_hw&t=44s
The Price of Youth Sports
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGxxBER5xJU&t=250s
The Social Network Rowing Scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zatmdqTYivI
Olivia Jade News Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tb2_yTXRWg&t=13s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysHXWJzHFX4
USC Campus Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKMp-4Mmqdw&t=12s
Dear White People (2014) Footage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMgWMzbM2Pk&t=89s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMgWMzbM2Pk&t=89s