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Start free trial →The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway · Tech Strategy & Big Tech · November 2026
Scott Galloway had described elite universities as hoarding admission through artificial scarcity. David Brooks answers with a story about college mailings, noting the schools boast about how many applicants they reject. This is a rebroadcast of an earlier interview.
…wedlock, 2.4 times more likely to say they have no friends. And so we've created this class divide on the basis of education. And it was mostly progressives who are in charge of our educational institutions. So fixing that problem is one of the things I think progressives have to have to work on.
…that the admissions rate has gone from 76% to 9%, which is my alma mater UCLA. Do you think that there's this virus that infects Democrats and Republicans where we've decided once you get there, pull up the bridge behind you, that we're more LVMH than what was originally envisioned for America?
Yeah, I mean, I would say the one little activity that personifies what you just said is my daughter did okay in her SAT scores, and she started getting brochures from colleges. And she got big, expensive, glossy brochures from schools like Harvard. There is literally no student in my zip code who can get into Harvard who doesn't know about Harvard. And so why did they send these fancy brochures? In order to induce students to apply so they can reject them. That way they can say we're rejecting 96% of the kids who are applying to our school. And so that's a bit of the cynicism of creating, not only creating scarcity, but bragging that you've become a rejection academy, rejecting 96% of the kids who apply. And so that to me is a bit of the segmentation. And then recruiters from the banks and the consulting groups, they recruit at various few schools. Somebody did a study of looking at who works in media, entertainment, corporations, law, science, and 50%. 54% in these various diverse fields went to the same 32 elite colleges. And so we have created a segregation system based on SAT scores and grades that divides…
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