"[I was] supposedly smarter than everyone else at our level,"
"I also was an all-star pitcher. There was promise."
"My whole life people had told me I was creative and I was smart and I was funny and the rest of it."
"Because they had a lot of seats relative to the number of applicants, they had the bandwidth to let in unremarkable kids,"
Scott Galloway showed early academic promise, advancing into fifth-grade classes in third grade and excelling in sports. After his parents' divorce his grades declined and he quit athletics. In high school he earned mainly B's and C's, did not study for the SAT, scored 1130, and was denied admission to UCLA. He worked installing shelving for $18 an hour before pursuing an appeal that led to UCLA admission as a native son of California. He later became a NYU Stern professor, entrepreneur, podcaster, accumulated a $150 million net worth, and donated $16 million to UCLA.
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