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- ▶ 18:25 David Rosenthal And that takes us to Phillips Exeter Academy.
- ▶ 18:31 David Rosenthal And so Exeter is one of these private boarding high schools that have existed basically as long as Ivy League colleges have, and they're there just kind of as feeder schools into Ivy League colleges.
- ▶ 18:43 David Rosenthal So Mark applies to Exeter, gets in, and the summer before he's about to go, the school hosts an event in New York City, in the city, for incoming two years to meet each other, get to know the school, get ready, etc.
- ▶ 19:39 Ben Gilbert I'm sure if you went to this school today, it'd be 80% of the classes, or a hundred percent of the classes really into computers.
- ▶ 19:51 David Rosenthal So the two of them, when they get to Exeter, become fast friends.
- ▶ 19:59 David Rosenthal And by the end of their senior year, to graduate from Exeter, you have to do a senior project.
- ▶ 35:45 Ben Gilbert In fact, Phillips Exeter had one.
- ▶ 35:50 David Rosenthal So you had to give the university, or in Exeter's case, the high school, a school photo of you when you were coming in before you matriculated,
- ▶ 2:04:20 David Rosenthal I mean, they were at Exeter together, like, I don't think you can separate it out.