Breaking news: Harvard disgraced on America's Next Top Model!

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<p>I was so torn last night - whether to watch the RNC or ANTM. Well, I watched Rudy and Sarah and the gang and taped Tyra and the Js. So…one of the 20 finalists was a girl who siad she had just graduated from Harvard as an English Lit major. Tyra asked her to name her favorite heroine from English literature. The girl stammered and then said, “I really wasn’t paying attention in those classes.” Panel: “But it was your major…” Tyra: “How about Jane Eyre?” Harvard grad: “Oh yeah, I like her.” </p>

<p>Then, to rub it in, Tyra started talking about other great works and authors-e.g. Call of the Wild (nothing obscure, because this is Tyra we’re talking about) and the girl mouthed to Jay, “I’ve never heard of these.”</p>

<p>???</p>

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<p>Maybe she got into Harvard based on her modeling skills Lol. No can give guarantee for making a person intelligent- if she’s dumb, she just is ;)</p>

<p>ciao.</p>

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<p>I wondered whether she or her parents had been on this board, what her screen name might have been, etc. She actually wasn’t “Legally Blonde” beautiful…she didn’t make the final 14.</p>

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<p>What was this contestant’s name?</p>

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<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson :: Opinion :: Lessons Syesha Taught Me](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=523540]The”>http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=523540)</p>

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<p>Susan.</p>

<p>From the TV Guide recap:</p>

<p>Of course, we can’t forget about the Harvard lit grad [Susan] clearly slept with someone in admissions if she couldn’t even think of one literary heroine</p>

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<p>Maybe it was Harvard Extension…</p>

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<p>What they didn’t explain is that she graduated from Harvard Illinois Community College (no offense to English Lit grads from community colleges all over the US who, no doubt, can name many heroines from English Literature.) Yikes!!</p>

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<p>I wonder about the claims of lots of the girls. The girl who was from France said one time that they moved to the US when she was 7, then later said it was when she was 9. Last season a girl whose last name was “Ali” said her uncle was Mohammed Ali. Shouldn’t her last name have been “Clay”?</p>

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<p>The girl mentioned later (maybe you did not see that part) that she was totally out of it in front of camera, just too nervous to answer any questions. I took it more as a reflection on a girl (Lier? Nervous? Did not know? Wanted a lot of attention?..etc.) rather than Harvard. </p>

<p>But Rudi was totally amazing and much more entertaining than ANTM. I just wish that he was the one to vote for (sorry for taking it out of subject).</p>

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<p>She said that, but give me a break, couldn’t you have babbled something - maybe something lame, but at least something-about your major right after you’d graduated, no matter how nervous you were?</p>

<p>Rudy was in his element. Son was asking me why he seemed so great then, but so bad on the campaign trail. I told him that it was because he had been trying to squeeze into the Republican box/mold, and it was not a comfortable fit. He should have run as an independent, but that’s not exactly the sure road to the White House.</p>

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<p>She was hopeless! But pretty, I think. Didn’t she look kind of like the vapid Yale girl from last season? I think there may be an Ivy League niche in ANTM now.</p>

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<p>I thought Vapid Yale Girl was strking and took great photographs. I think she only mentioned Yale in one interview and they replayed it over and over again to make it sound like it was all she talked about.</p>

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<p>Do they give last names for these women? If she graduated in 2008 I can look her up in the Commencement program to see if she was from the Extension School or the College or what.</p>

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<p>No last names. But since she’s not on the show as a finalist, she might now be giving interviews.</p>

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<p>She answers to the name Susan and is from Canton, MI.</p>

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<p>That’s strange. I thought that females old enough to go to college were women, not girls. I guess if you appear on television, you lose your status as a woman and revert to being a girl.</p>

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<p>Almost all of the finalists this year are 19. One just turned 18 I believe. I guess I am so old that I do think of 19 year olds as girls. (Esp. when they behave like some of the ANTM contestants.)</p>

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<p>razorsharp: True enough. But to be fair, you don’t often hear people describe younger men on television as men; they’re “guys” (that indefinite stage between puberty and 35). Guys and girls are what get good ratings, not men and women.</p>

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<p>Wow, Susan has already graduated from Harvard at age 19? No wonder she can’t talk about any books she read. She wasn’t in college long enough to read any.</p>

<p>Are we sure that by “Harvard graduate” they mean that she graduated from Harvard <em>College</em> and not say Harvard-Westlake High School in Los Angeles?</p>