(bright music)
(cheerful whistling)
- I feel like every stereotypical Ivy League student
is like really like elitist, - Yeah.
- Stuck-up.
I don't think, you know... - Definitely.
- I feel like a lot of people don't really fit that
stereotype. - No.
- I feel like it is people that...
(students agreeing and disagreeing)
don't count people out.
(exciting music)
- [Announcer] We brought together seven Ivy League students
- I'm an Ivy League student.
- [Announcer] One is a college dropout.
If the group discovers who the liar is,
they'll split a cash prize.
If the liar survives, they win the entire prize.
Who is the odd one out?
- What year are you guys?
- Yeah
- Yeah, so I just graduated this May.
So '21.
- Okay, I'm a freshman at Harvard.
- So, Junior, Class of '22
- Freshman.
Princeton.
- I am a sophomore.
- I'm a sophomore, as well.
- '22.
What's your guys' favorite restaurant at Brown?
- My favorite is probably Heng's.
- Pokeworks.
- Okay. Okay.
- What's yours?
- Mike's
- He asked like a superficial question about
like the restaurants that the other Brown students liked.
So maybe he was like from the Providence area
and he just knows like, what's good around the area to eat.
What clubs are you guys involved in?
(group laughing)
- Extracurriculars
- Brown Finance Club.
- So I played football at Brown.
So you get this letter after four years
of a varsity sport at Brown.
I don't know if it's the same at your schools-
if you guys get a letter.
- I would not know.
- I don't do sports.
- Yeah, I wouldn't know.
- Unfortunately.
His story about being an athlete and being graduated
kind of worked out too perfectly.
- I'm on the dance team at Harvard.
- Student Radio.
- I'm in Wildcats Acapella.
And then we have Princeton Rock Ensemble.
- I'm on the dance team Strictly Funk.
We're actually doing a collab with Princeton's Bodyhype.
So that's exciting.
- Oh my gosh.
Yes.
I have a few friends in Bodyhype.
- She could have easily looked up princeton.com
and read "What is a dance team at Princeton?",
and just memorized it.
I'm in a sorority.
I'm a Theta.
And I'm also in a philosophy magazine called the Gadfly.
- Yeah. BFC- Brown Finance Club and then Sig Chi.
But we got kicked off.
(students laughing drowns out speaker)
- Go Tigers.
(bell ringing)
(suspenseful music)
- It was her outfit.
It was very, very New York and Columbia.
Almost too much so, right?
Like right out of a Gossip Girl episode.
- My psychic instincts were like telling me, "Vote for her."
Like something was just like, "vote for her."
(buzzer buzzing)
- Bye girly.
- Bye.
- Bye guys.
- Samara was really carrying the conversation.
She was a little bit more outspoken.
And I think that they saw me maybe standing next to her,
just being a little bit more quiet
and a little bit more shy.
- What are some things currently going on at your school
or something recent?
- My homecoming is today and we're playing against Penn.
- Yay.
- Wait, did you guys go to the Harvard/Brown game?
- Well, I played in it the previous year.
- Oh.
- Okay, well, yeah.
- Yeah.
- Were you at the Harvard/Brown game?
- Yes, I was.
- That's like a pretty...
- That was my first Gameday.
- Yeah. When Helen brought up the football game and stuff,
which is kind of common knowledge,
that's probably the easiest thing to bring up.
If I was faking being an Ivy League student
I'd probably say I was a freshman just to cover
up for things I might not know yet
because I'm new to the school.
- What's a big Columbia staple?
- I feel like one thing that we all know is probably just
like JJ's is really big.
Mel's.
They're obsessed with those two places
but I personally am not a big fan.
- Yeah, of all the Ivy Leagues,
I know the least about Columbia.
So I'm not able to verify if anything she's saying is true.
You know, when she said a restaurant,
no one else in the group was like, "Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know that place. I know that place."
- Obviously, Harvard has the John Harvard statue,
and it's actually the statue of three lies
because it's not John Harvard,
John Harvard did not found Harvard,
and the date it was founded is wrong on the statue.
Literally every freshman boy just pees on the statue.
And then none of the tourists know,
(students groaning and laughing)
like I wake up every morning,
I see tourists coming into the yard
- They're taking photos with it?
- and then everybody touching it...
Like you guys don't know what's been on the foot.
- I was just kind of like,
that's something that anyone could have learned
from going to a tour.
- At Princeton we just had lawn parties.
We had ASAP Ferg come and perform at our eating clubs.
(student's "oohing" and "ahhing")
I know.
I'm wearing our little wristband.
Little lawn party wristband we just had.
So that was really fun.
- I mean, we just had our Hey Day.
So basically everyone comes around
like hats and canes and walks down Locust.
And then it's this thing to bite a chunk
out of your friends' hats.
(laughing)
- Oh.
- Mike's Calzones.
Everyone gets Calzones
after they have a little too much to drink.
Usually that's like the go-to spot.
It's like right on Thayer Street,
which is like our main street down campus
which has just like all our restaurants and stuff.
- He kept mentioning Calzones and just random food places.
And I was like, either he must really like
this Calzone place or he just doesn't know
that much about Brown.
- Do you guys feel like you fit
your school's stereotypical student?
- That's a great question.
(students laughing)
- No.
- And be honest.
(students talking all at once)
- I feel like every stereotypical Ivy League student is like
we like elitist, stuck up. - No.
- I don't think, you know... - Definitely.
- I feel like a lot of people don't really fit
that stereotype. - No.
- I feel like there is people that...
(students arguing)
don't count people out.
There are people.
- Yeah, there for sure are.
- Brown's pretty elitist.
- Yeah.
- Brown's supposed to be like the chill Ivy
but Brown's also like really, really elitist, to be honest.
- For me, I feel like I fit Columbia's to an extent,
like the individual who kind of makes use of the city,
but then at the same time, our school is
full of a bunch of like elitist internationals.
And I just do not wear Canada Goose every day.
- Not the same Canada Goose jacket.
(students talking at once)
The same one.
- The same exact one. - There just like...
- Down to here.
(laughing)
(bell ringing)
(suspenseful music)
- I voted for Kylie because it seemed a little rehearsed.
- I thought Austin was a little bit off
just because he didn't answer or add too much
to his first answers in the previous round.
(buzzer buzzing)
- Sorry bro.
- Sorry.
(students laughing)
- I felt betrayed.
Absolutely betrayed.
I think it's because I said Mike's twice
and then Thayer Street and all that.
So it kind of seemed like I only had like one thing
to talk about.
- [Announcer] New rule.
Starting now,
for every time all of you vote out someone
that is not the mole, the total prize money will be reduced.
(students laughing and groaning)
Please raise your hand
if you want to continue playing the game.
That is a majority.
- Let's put our Ivy League brains together, y'all.
- Please.
- So half the money is gone
if we vote out the wrong person.
TBH, I feel like we voted out the person.
- Yeah.
- But also there was too many people here
- Exactly.
- to vote, to end the game now.
At that point it was just like game plan -
how am I gonna stay in the game
and split it by the end.
- So what are your COVID policies right now?
Like do you have things going on?
- We test twice a week now?
It used to be three times a week.
Now it's twice a week
and we have to do a color swab test.
- Oh, yeah.
- For us, we just have to get tested like twice a month.
- Oh.
- Wow. - Really?
- Okay. This is kind shocking,
but I thought Columbia was crazy,
but we are not required to go at all.
- Oh.
- They just do like...
- In the city?
- No, we're not.
- The city's so dirty, though.
(students laughing)
It's crazy.
- This is just about the game, okay?
Can we forgo this round?
- What if we don't...
Yeah, we don't vote.
- Oh.
- Like if we're just, okay, we want to end it now.
Because I'm not like...
- Can we vote for Cornell?
- Dartmouth?
(bell ringing)
(suspenseful music)
- I just felt she could just be going to another school
in New York, because there's so many other schools
in New York city.
- Kylie, I'm so sorry.
I have to write a name down.
Nothing personal.
- Samara next to me wrote a lot.
And so I thought she was writing down Blessing
because his name is significantly longer
than the rest of ours.
(buzzer buzzing)
- Damn.
- Bye girl.
- Sorry.
- I was definitely irritated.
- [Announcer] Please raise your hand
if you want to continue playing the game.
Alright.
We will end the game now.
- Girl, if you did me dirty.
- No.
- Ooh.
- I got the lawn parties.
I got the wristband.
Please.
- [Announcer] If the lights turn green
that means you have voted out the mole and you win.
If the lights turn red,
that means that the mole is still in the box, and you lose.
(suspenseful music)
(students cheering)
- Yay.
- Yay, I'm so proud of us.
- Good job.
Good job.
- [Announcer] Will the fake Ivy League student
please step forward and reveal yourself in 3, 2, 1?
(students groaning)
- She said "Pokeworks."
That's crazy.
Pokeworks.
- I know.
- My roommate is from Brown, so...
- Oh.
- So what's your story?
- At 19 years old,
I dropped out of Computer Science at Purdue University.
I booked a one way ticket out
to San Francisco and I started a Startup.
I now run a Marketing School
where I help other people get a job in the marketing world.
It's completely free up front
because we believe that regardless
of where you go or what your background is
that shouldn't define your future opportunities.
- That's so nice.
- Yeah. - Yeah, that's awesome.
- Good for you.
- Girl boss. - Girl boss.
- Women in STEM. - Women in STEM.
- I was not suspecting her at all.
I was thinking it was gonna be Austin.
- I didn't do as well in high school.
So I wouldn't have been accepted into an Ivy League,
but that doesn't mean that you can't be successful
throughout the rest of your life.
- It's like, I want to say
that it doesn't really mean anything,
but considering the fact that I'm first-gen,
college education-wise,
and the fact that my parents are immigrants,
like going to an Ivy means a lot to me.
- I never thought I would get into Harvard.
I got in when I was 16, and I was overblown by this.
If I could get in,
I feel like anybody could just pursue their dreams
and just shoot their shot
because you never know what could happen.
- [Announcer] That is the end of the game.
(students clapping) - Yay.
- [Announcer] And we also want to thank all of you,
and give you all a gift.
- Oh
(students squealing in delight)
- So cute.
- Not the mole.
- Mole.
- Oh my god.
(students laughing)
- Wow.
- That's so good.
- Wait, can we get a picture with our totes?
- You guys did vote one person incorrectly.
So I will take half. - No.
- Ready?
- 3, 2, 1.
- Yay.
(students laughing and cheering)
- That's so exciting.