Maria Shriver's Daughter Waitlisted at BC

StickerShock
Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:30:12 +0000

She is not just a People Magazine story, she’s an entire issue.

LOL!!!

JHS, I love your post, but have to point out one big factual error: “…her family is the highest-status clan in the college’s core community.” THis is not true. The Kennedys were desperate to fit in with the “good” people of Boston & initially struggled for acceptance among the Bluebloods. As Catholics (expecially the Irish) were shut out of the moneyed WASPy world, they started their own academic network up & down the East coast & out in the midwest with, most notably, Notre Dame. The Kennedys continued to claw their way into the WASPy world of the ivy league. They were never a part of the Catholic college network. Perhaps this is why BC is snubbing the new generation? Despite her People Magazine profile? (Or she may be of very average intelligence, like the vast majority of her relatives.)

I should add that I was steeped in the Irish Catholic core community. Plenty of us despise the Kennedy clan & the taint of lawlessness, scandal, and immorality they bring to the table.