Talk to me about the Gonzaga college Instagram

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kids who go to schools that cost $50k a year want to make money. Shocking.

It's not $50k a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look at the Yorktown HS insta (in North Arlington) and its not much different.

Shocking, I know. Rich kids want to continue to be rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No, for normal people it isn’t a huge difference because we can’t afford either tuition. You’re living in a dcum bubble.

You're telling me that a $35K tuition isn't more attainable to a larger percentage of the population via financial aid than $50K tuition?

Of course it is, that's why Gonzaga has their biggest class in over 200 years and why they didn't go to the waitlist. People chose Gonzaga over Prep or St. Alban's precisely because it was is cheap. It flows downhill. I know kids who chose O'Connell over Gonzaga because it's cheaper as well. Times are tough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you expect from a school with mostly country club kids and hardly any diversity?

Right. That's hardly the case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the OP. 10:23 and 10:25, you have very much misread the situation. I am the opposite of looking to be offended. I am looking to be reassured because Gonzaga would be a good option for us and the Gonzaga page really stands in contrast to what I am seeing for other schools. I haven't fully quantified, but it seems like the boys are so heavily concentrated on finance and engineering, much more so than other schools even other all boys schools. And I wonder how the service orientation of Gonzaga plays out later in their lives.

I wouldn't read much into it. For what it's worth, many colleges don't even have you declare your major until sophomore year, so who knows what they'll be interested in doing a year from now? I changed my major like ten times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you expect from a school with mostly country club kids and hardly any diversity?

You have to be kidding.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:These read very inside joke-y to me. Satire. Some are serious but really, common sense people...obviously many of these are purposely ridiculous. These are the some of the most recent ones:

"After college, he plans on going to law school so he can fight for puppies!!!!!!!"

"After college he plans on being a good person."

"After college, he plans on heading to Wall Street and cornering the frozen concentrated orange juice market."

"After college, he hopes to post Family Guy clips on TikTok for a living."

"After college, he hopes to build robots and take over the world."

"After school, he hopes to live as a sherpa in the Himalayan Mountains with his pet yak, Jean Jacques."

"After college, he plans on exploring the American frontier on his horse."

"After college, he hopes to dig a hole to China and fix the traffic on GW and Canal."

"After college, he hopes to be a trophy husband and a stay-at-home dad."

"After college, he hopes to fly jets and fight bad guys like Tom Cruise."

"After college, he plans on attending dental school and learning kung fu from Master Shifu so he can become the next dragon warrior."

"After college, he plans on beginning a coconut empire."

Student studying economics: "After college, he plans on returning home to industrialize Tenleytown."

"After college, he intends on harvesting maple syrup professionally and starting a moose grooming company."

"After college, he hopes to become a genius billionaire philanthropist."

"After college he looks forward to starting a clandestine black box organization along with [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED]."

"After college, he plans on becoming a famous pirate."

"After college he wants to hop around with the kangaroos down under in Australia."

"After college he is going to escape the matrix and live on an undisclosed mountain."

"He hopes to break into the fast food scene as a Taco Bell product tester after college."

I love the Trading Places reference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the OP. 10:23 and 10:25, you have very much misread the situation. I am the opposite of looking to be offended. I am looking to be reassured because Gonzaga would be a good option for us and the Gonzaga page really stands in contrast to what I am seeing for other schools. I haven't fully quantified, but it seems like the boys are so heavily concentrated on finance and engineering, much more so than other schools even other all boys schools. And I wonder how the service orientation of Gonzaga plays out later in their lives.

These seem like very easy questions you could ask admissions. Instead you choose to start a DCUM thread on the college decision insta and somehow are wondering how that ties into service as an adult? You are twisting yourself into knots and I am not exactly sure over what. Or you are just some troll looking to bash Gonzaga over funny insta posts about teen boys. Wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is the OP. 10:23 and 10:25, you have very much misread the situation. I am the opposite of looking to be offended. I am looking to be reassured because Gonzaga would be a good option for us and the Gonzaga page really stands in contrast to what I am seeing for other schools. I haven't fully quantified, but it seems like the boys are so heavily concentrated on finance and engineering, much more so than other schools even other all boys schools. And I wonder how the service orientation of Gonzaga plays out later in their lives.

These seem like very easy questions you could ask admissions. Instead you choose to start a DCUM thread on the college decision insta and somehow are wondering how that ties into service as an adult? You are twisting yourself into knots and I am not exactly sure over what. Or you are just some troll looking to bash Gonzaga over funny insta posts about teen boys. Wow.

Agree.

How about just asking: how would people say the service mission of the school plays out for young men after they leave the school or later in life?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What do you expect from a school with mostly country club kids and hardly any diversity?

(1) this isn't true, and (2) non-diverse country club kids are more likely to go into things like film studies and English because they have, you know, mom and dad's money to fall back on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pretty much every upper middle class kid in America wants to study:
-finance
-engineering
-pre med--often as biology or public heath or neuroscience.


Look at the instagrams from every school. The majors are 80% business/finance and then 10% of each of the others.

The way to game the system is to indicate interest in a niche humanities major such as anthropology, gender studies, or East Asian studies. It will help you stand out and also wash away some of the "privilege" stench from the application.

Once you're in the college, just switch your major to what you really want to study.

[Anonymous]

Well, OP, clutching your pearls, my son graduated last year. He chose a Jesuit college BECAUSE of the values instilled by Gonzaga. He attends mass on his own at school. He was involved in Campus Ministry at Gonzaga and his Kairos experience was transformative for him. My son is a marketing major with a Spanish minor. He writes for the school newspaper- another thing he did at Gonzaga. We aren’t a country club family. We actually were the only family from our zip code at Gonzaga.

So, ignore the Instagram. It’s tongue in cheek.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These read very inside joke-y to me. Satire. Some are serious but really, common sense people...obviously many of these are purposely ridiculous. These are the some of the most recent ones:

"After college, he plans on going to law school so he can fight for puppies!!!!!!!"

"After college he plans on being a good person."

"After college, he plans on heading to Wall Street and cornering the frozen concentrated orange juice market."

"After college, he hopes to post Family Guy clips on TikTok for a living."

"After college, he hopes to build robots and take over the world."

"After school, he hopes to live as a sherpa in the Himalayan Mountains with his pet yak, Jean Jacques."

"After college, he plans on exploring the American frontier on his horse."

"After college, he hopes to dig a hole to China and fix the traffic on GW and Canal."

"After college, he hopes to be a trophy husband and a stay-at-home dad."

"After college, he hopes to fly jets and fight bad guys like Tom Cruise."

"After college, he plans on attending dental school and learning kung fu from Master Shifu so he can become the next dragon warrior."

"After college, he plans on beginning a coconut empire."

Student studying economics: "After college, he plans on returning home to industrialize Tenleytown."

"After college, he intends on harvesting maple syrup professionally and starting a moose grooming company."

"After college, he hopes to become a genius billionaire philanthropist."

"After college he looks forward to starting a clandestine black box organization along with [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED]."

"After college, he plans on becoming a famous pirate."

"After college he wants to hop around with the kangaroos down under in Australia."

"After college he is going to escape the matrix and live on an undisclosed mountain."

"He hopes to break into the fast food scene as a Taco Bell product tester after college."

I love the Trading Places reference.

https://youtu.be/RLySXTIBS3c?si=2r5Pk8hmLYxzJs9I

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These read very inside joke-y to me. Satire. Some are serious but really, common sense people...obviously many of these are purposely ridiculous. These are the some of the most recent ones:

"After college, he plans on going to law school so he can fight for puppies!!!!!!!"

"After college he plans on being a good person."

"After college, he plans on heading to Wall Street and cornering the frozen concentrated orange juice market."

"After college, he hopes to post Family Guy clips on TikTok for a living."

"After college, he hopes to build robots and take over the world."

"After school, he hopes to live as a sherpa in the Himalayan Mountains with his pet yak, Jean Jacques."

"After college, he plans on exploring the American frontier on his horse."

"After college, he hopes to dig a hole to China and fix the traffic on GW and Canal."

"After college, he hopes to be a trophy husband and a stay-at-home dad."

"After college, he hopes to fly jets and fight bad guys like Tom Cruise."

"After college, he plans on attending dental school and learning kung fu from Master Shifu so he can become the next dragon warrior."

"After college, he plans on beginning a coconut empire."

Student studying economics: "After college, he plans on returning home to industrialize Tenleytown."

"After college, he intends on harvesting maple syrup professionally and starting a moose grooming company."

"After college, he hopes to become a genius billionaire philanthropist."

"After college he looks forward to starting a clandestine black box organization along with [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED]."

"After college, he plans on becoming a famous pirate."

"After college he wants to hop around with the kangaroos down under in Australia."

"After college he is going to escape the matrix and live on an undisclosed mountain."

"He hopes to break into the fast food scene as a Taco Bell product tester after college."

I love the Trading Places reference.

+1 An oldie but a goodie. Someone’s parents raised ‘em right.

[Anonymous]

Gonzaga is the best. Send your son there. You won’t regret it.