Gatecrashers
5.0/5
Critic Rating
From the team behind Unorthodox—the #1 Jewish podcast—comes a new eight-part series detailing the hidden history of Jews and the Ivy League.Gatecrashers 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. Hosted by Mark Oppenheimer, each episode focuses on one Ivy League school: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Critic Reviews
Score: 5
Ximena Smith • Stuff NZ • Oct 22, 2022
"Hosted by Mark Oppenheimer, the podcast contends that fundamental aspects of the Ivy League admissions process today – from the interviews to the need for geographical diversity – were all initially put in place to ensure only the “good”, assimilable Jewish students were accepted. Gatecrashers raises interesting questions about the meaning of diversity, and also points to some parallels happening right now with the way Asian American students within the Ivy League system are treated."
