Maria Shriver's Daughter Waitlisted at BC

StickerShock
Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:22:00 +0000

Coureur, Rose Kennedy herself complained about not being “accepted” by the WASPs. All her life, this complaint was voiced. Not surprising. Aren’t there thousands of posts on CC about self segregating by class at elite schools? When the Kennedy political power soared, plenty of WASPs were eager to jump on board. But they were still seen as riffraff in many circles. To say the Kennedy family was very cognizent of the prestige of the ivy/WASP world is a huge understatement. They wanted to distance themselves from the Irish Catholic families who loyally supported the BCs. As for a ND connection: Ted’s cousin (the one Ted tried to have take the blame for driving the car off the bridge) was a Notre Dame grad. Joe Gargan, I believe was his name. That branch of the family valued a Catholic education. I have no idea if later generations are followng in that path.

I know BC doesn’t get much traction on CC, but check out the admission rates & admitted student profile. It’s crasy competitive. D’s Catholic h.s used to have twenty kids admitted a year. Now the Harvard rejects are lucky to gain a spot. So wait-listing Arnold’s D was likely because she wasn’t a superstar & the attention the wait-list designation might gain would be a bit of free publicity. Although the number of applications to BC is enormous already!