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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am late to the party, but I just watched it and loved it. Then I came here and read every page, and I cannot believe that among all the "that was unrealistic" complaints, no one mentioned Siobhan driving off to Berkeley alone in her Prius.[/quote]

Ok, I'm REALLY late to the party having just finished last night, and I came here to say exactly that!!  A freshman, driving by herself across the country to a college she's never seen, to move in all by herself.  Riiiiiiight.  Not to mention, there was never any discussion at all about the cost of sending her to Berkeley.  SO unrealistic.  That was the one really false note in the whole show.[/quote]

The cost, and the fact that she applied to a prestigious college late in the spring, just called up a professor, and was able to get in. Come on! She was not that extraordinary that she could bypass regular admissions like that.[/quote]
And they don't mail acceptances like that anymore.  Your kid has a portal, and the kid checks the portal for updates.  When there is a decision, some colleges email your kid telling them to to check their portal, and other colleges don't, and the kid has to just keep checking every day.  A snail mail letter comes along much later.

Also, Berkeley being a public school and all...I just don't see a kid talking to a professor and then getting in like that.  Maybe no one on this crew has a college-age kid, OR, maybe everyone on this crew has an inside track and so they don't realize how unrealistic this whole storyline was.[/quote]

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