Maria Shriver's Daughter Waitlisted at BC

JHS
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:08:29 +0000

The point of this thread is that when Boston College doesn’t accept a Kennedy kid, that’s news. Man bites dog.

It probably IS more common than we assume. Famous peoples’ kids not getting accepted at College X, that is. NOT a Kennedy being turned down by Boston College. I sincerely doubt that’s more common than we assume. In fact, it appears that it still hasn’t happened. Usually, famous people don’t talk publicly about it, though.

Also, La Schwarzeneggrette isn’t just any old child of a famous person. On one side, she is a member of what is essentially America’s royal family AND the child of a well-known TV personality. As far as Boston College is concerned, her family is the highest-status clan in the college’s core community, and she is a close (enough) relative of the senior senator from its state. Her grandfather founded the Peace Corps. Then, on her father’s side, she is the child of the sitting governor of the country’s most populous state, a national political player, AND one of the most popular and successful actors in the history of the world. Who is a former Mr. Universe.

She is not just a People Magazine story, she’s an entire issue. There aren’t a ton of applicants like that out there. Except maybe her Cuomo cousins in a few years.