Crying to Dr. Drew because son got waitlisted

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, in all honesty, very few people set their sights on going to ... Boston College ... but it becomes an acceptable-ish fallback. If plan A fails, go to plan B, which is to transfer to an Ivy. The President went that route, albeit from a school that is even more of a safety.

Shit, I'd be thrilled if my very smart but lazy kid could somehow get into BC.

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I don't think the point is that there is anything wrong with BC; the significance is her characteristically DC obsession with status and school rankings.

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Anonymous wrote:In the northeast, BC is definitely one of the aspiration schools. Growing up, it was uttered in the same breath as Georgetown, Penn, Duke, and Vandy.

Not in my experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean, in all honesty, very few people set their sights on going to ... Boston College ... but it becomes an acceptable-ish fallback. If plan A fails, go to plan B, which is to transfer to an Ivy. The President went that route, albeit from a school that is even more of a safety.

Shit, I'd be thrilled if my very smart but lazy kid could somehow get into BC.

True that, true that.

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She put out a *lot* of identifying information... Cringy
This put that podcast back on my radar. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the northeast, BC is definitely one of the aspiration schools. Growing up, it was uttered in the same breath as Georgetown, Penn, Duke, and Vandy.

Not in my experience.

NP here, and I went to another college in Boston. BC has an excellent reputation, and is regarded by New Englanders as below Harvard and MIT, but equal to or above Boston University, and far above Northeastern, Trinity, UMass, and all of the other smaller schools in the area. BC is very selective.

[Anonymous]

Ivy does not equal fulfillment or happiness. It is a lie we're told from birth that prestige and wealth are the keys to happiness. They help, sure, but if that's all you got going on, you don't got much.

Service, love of family and friends, a meaningful career-- those are the things this woman and her son should be striving for.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved this so much. It is literally everything that embodies some of the DC suburbs. A mom with "a little bit of" an eating disorder who gave up her job on the Hill to get her kid into an Ivy League school. Social embarrassment over where her kid actually got in. Absolutely zero social awareness of how she comes off. All this story needs is a husband cheating with a junior associate to make the story complete.

The husband would have to be an EXECUTIVE who lunches on fried tuna.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ivy does not equal fulfillment or happiness. It is a lie we're told from birth that prestige and wealth are the keys to happiness. They help, sure, but if that's all you got going on, you don't got much.

Service, love of family and friends, a meaningful career-- those are the things this woman and her son should be striving for.

Military service too.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the northeast, BC is definitely one of the aspiration schools. Growing up, it was uttered in the same breath as Georgetown, Penn, Duke, and Vandy.

Not in my experience.

NP here, and I went to another college in Boston. BC has an excellent reputation, and is regarded by New Englanders as below Harvard and MIT, but equal to or above Boston University, and far above Northeastern, Trinity, UMass, and all of the other smaller schools in the area. BC is very selective.

Certainly above BU, Northeastern, and those others.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In the northeast, BC is definitely one of the aspiration schools. Growing up, it was uttered in the same breath as Georgetown, Penn, Duke, and Vandy.

Not in my experience.

Maybe with Vandy , if you are catholic. Otherwise not in the same league as these, particularly duke and penn. But certainly a fine school that the mom should be able to accept without embarrassment.

[Anonymous]

Wonder if she told her poor child how embarrassed she is over the whole incident. How sad is this?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone else see the irony in this discussion descending into a debate on the prestige of BC? This is exactly the toxic culture that created Crazy Lady from Chevy Chase.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else see the irony in this discussion descending into a debate on the prestige of BC? This is exactly the toxic culture that created Crazy Lady from Chevy Chase.

whats the debate? It's a pretty good second tier school.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone else see the irony in this discussion descending into a debate on the prestige of BC? This is exactly the toxic culture that created Crazy Lady from Chevy Chase.

whats the debate? It's a pretty good second tier school.

Thanks for playing