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🗓️ 7 October 2019
⏱️ 21 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey there, this episode contains just the tiniest bit of salty language. |
0:05.4 | Okay, here's the show. |
0:11.5 | There's a couple of things I need to tell you about my guest today. |
0:14.7 | His name is Ellie Mistal. |
0:16.5 | The first thing you need to know is that he went to Harvard. |
0:19.3 | Twice actually. |
0:20.5 | College and then law school. |
0:23.0 | Second thing you need to know is that he's black. |
0:26.1 | That means he's deeply familiar with people questioning his credentials. |
0:30.3 | How he's gotten to where he is now. |
0:32.5 | I have heard that since I set foot on campus in Cambridge |
0:37.5 | from a certain kind of white people and that gets them frustrating |
0:41.5 | because I can say that I test you into the goddamn ground. |
0:46.5 | You don't want to come at me on a test, right? |
0:49.5 | Maybe you know, you want to do some math? |
0:52.5 | Okay, maybe you do not want to come for me on an LSAT or an SAT or a GRE. |
0:58.5 | I will embarrass you and your family. |
1:01.5 | And having to hear white people not get that my whole life has been frustrating. |
1:11.0 | These days, Ellie writes for the nation. |
1:13.0 | Edits the blog above the law. |
1:15.0 | And in the last week, he has been thinking a lot about college admissions. |
1:19.0 | How he decide who's in and who's out. |
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