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 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.

Guess I missed those utterances in my part of the northeast. I did hear Duke mentioned, though.

Anonymous wrote:I don't know why people like this woman are so upset about thier kids not getting into the Ivy League. The Ivy League is dead. Its been dead since the 60s. It has become a bastion of Left-wing nut jobs. When a nut like Pete Singer is allowed to teach at an Ivy, you can tell where these peoples heads are. Now Harvard is trying to force the few remaining all-make clubs on the campus to admit women. What idiocy!

They are dead institutions and yet you can worked up over an issue as peripheral as single sex clubs? Me thinks you care a bit too much. I promise you Harvard will survive no matter how this small issue is resolved.

I don't know why people like this woman are so upset about thier kids not getting into the Ivy League. The Ivy League is dead. Its been dead since the 60s. It has become a bastion of Left-wing nut jobs. When a nut like Pete Singer is allowed to teach at an Ivy, you can tell where these peoples heads are. Now Harvard is trying to force the few remaining all-make clubs on the campus to admit women. What idiocy!

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.

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.

I don't think most Type A parent looks at their brand new baby and dreams of Boston College, but I think MANY parents look at their high school junior, who they now understand is a person with strengths and weaknesses, and thinks that Boston College would be just fine. It's the difference between an ideal (the baby, who has yet to show you who they are) and the reality (which is that not every single kid is going to make the cut for an Ivy).

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.

Are you the woman from the podcast?

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.

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.

I had to look this up. Find it at 39:30. Kid was a legacy at Darmouth and didn't get in. And mom had an eating disorder b/c she was so upset he didn't get in? Holy shit. She quit her job to raise her kids and "to get him into an ivy league school".

She. quit. her. job. to. get. her. son. into. an. ivy. league. school.

And yet! She wasn't a helicopter mom and that's the problem - where she went wrong was not being a helicopter mom.

Don't worry about her though. She's sure he'll go to graduate school - "probably Yale or Stanford". This shit is blowing my mind.

She talks about a "friend from Chevy Chase." This woman put WAY too much information out there for the world. The ages of her other kids, where her son eventually ended up, what he is majoring in. She would be instantly recognizable to anyone in her social sphere.

Say what? For real? LOL!!!!

That makes sense. The whole point of working hard and thinking ahead is so that if you are lucky you only get left with First World problems to worry about ....

But even given that, Boston College is a fine outcome for most people ....

Oh my god, the shame of it! Boston College!

OK. Which one of you called into the Adam and Dr. Drew podcast complaining about not being able to "get over" your son not getting into an Ivy, despite it being three years ago?

It was episode #330 "Sugar Baby."

She said that she was from DC and complained about how embarrassing it was to go to dinner with friends knowing that her son was merely attending Boston College.

It was the most First World Problem I have ever heard.