Wish to goddess this was an April Fool

[tikistitch]

Hecate points to yet another in the New York Times' seemingly nonending series of annoying though splendiferously news-free articles regarding the aspirations of post-feminist young women.

When we left off, as you'll remember, ALL college-educated young women were preparing to chuck their high-pressure careers in order to breed, as conclusively proved by email interviews with a couple of bored coeds in the reporter's rolodex.

Now, we go back to high school, for ZOMG Admissions Anxiety!!!

You still have to be pretty, thin and, as one of Esther’s classmates, Kat Jiang, a go-to stage manager for student theater who has a perfect 2400 score on her SATs, wrote in an e-mail message, “It’s out of style to admit it, but it is more important to be hot than smart.”

“Effortlessly hot,” Kat added.

Yes, hawtness is right up there with AP calculus for today's college admissions boards.

Look, maybe somebody could grab these girls between rounds of smouldering in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and editing the Daily Bugle to tell them admissions committee basically stack applications in order of GPA and SAT, and couldn't give a crap about Ugg boots. By the way, speaking of pretentious high school actors, tiki attended Santa Monica High School with the Oscar-winning actor, Sean Penn. How many high school plays was he smouldering in? Uh, like, zero, dude.

Sadly, tiki can't seem to work up much empathy for the terrible plight of thin, rich white girls hoping to get into "name" schools so they can meet tall, rich white boys. We are, however, a bit offput that there are now not one but two AP test for Latin. Uh, Latin? WTF?

Comments

[middle-savagery.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got to about page three of that article. It made me want to take a cheese grater to their faces.

Do you remember the SNL skit, "Beautiful people with really bad problems" ? That's what it reminded me of. OH NOES! We're pretty and AMAZING and what oh what to do?!

Maybe I'll start offering personal consultation sessions for high school girls which involves me shaking them at the shoulders and shouting, "SCIENCE, YOU NINNY!"

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I got to about page three of that article. It made me want to take a cheese grater to their faces.

It took me most of the day to finally choke it down. On the last page, the "happy ending" has one of the kiddies getting admitted....to USC. I'm like, you're OK going to California, but didn't bother applying to UCLA or Cal? Jeebus.

[sassygirl.livejournal.com]

hahahah sean penn, oh dear! Did Chris Penn go to your school too?


that article was just,..... I couldn't get through the whole thing. grrrr.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

I'm honestly not sure about Chris Penn! Malibu people generally went to Samohi, but there was also an alternative school, and other private high schools.

Rob Lowe was a couple years back, and Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen went there too.

[sassygirl.livejournal.com]

Oh Emilio.... :(

OH I remember, didn't you say a friend of yours went to a theme park with Rob lowe and his girlfriend Melissa Gilbert and found her insane or something?

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

My sis's ex-husband, before he met my sis, had that misfortune.

[spazzygirl19.livejournal.com]

Oh dear ... and this is in the public schools? Check out this article from the L.A. Times yesterday:

www.latimes.com/news/local/valley/la-me-admissions31mar31,1,5774413.story?coll=la-editions-valley

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

A long time ago, the NY Times had a similar study....about trying to get into nursery school!

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

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