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<li><p>Water polo at the Ivies: How do they get the horses into the pool?</p></li>
<li><p>Speculative guess: 90% of entering Ivy students have never seen live human beings play competitive water polo. 89% of graduating Ivy students have never seen live human beings play competitive water polo.</p></li>
<li><p>When I was a student, my Ivy had varsity water polo. I knew several people on the team, one of them fairly well (the roommate of my best friend). I had never seen competitive water polo played before. I still haven’t.</p></li>
<li><p>In other words, they did it for themselves. It was not high status. They were all Californians. If they had been interested in / capable of Pac-10 level water polo, they wouldn’t have been there.</p></li>
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