<p>Harvard’s KENNEDY School of Govt. Wait, why are we talking about Harvard???</p>
<p>The Earl of Bedpan. LOL. Maybe b/c I am a nurse that hit me the right way and I am still laughing.
USC vs BC? I’m not sure you can compare. They are very, very different. But yes, USC takes it on the weather…</p>
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<p>In terms of simple fame you are right. But being Arnold’s daughter does not carry nearly the same weight at Harvard as being JFK Jr. Not when the one of the main streets through Harvard square is named John F. Kennedy Street. Not when JFK’s old dorm room is kept as a memorial suite that honored university guests get to stay in. Not when one of the 12 schools of Harvard University is named the John F. Kennedy School of Government. There is no Arnold Schwarzenegger Memorial anything at Harvard</p>
<p>JFK Jr. barely graduated from Brown. I mean, it’s Brown.<br>
Anyway, I wonder what her essay’s like, “growing up T3”?
Unless she attempted something like “a cross product between Kennedy and Schwarzenegger, total recall” i’m not sure why BC waitlisted her.</p>
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<p>I mean…well, er…really now. Is Brown easy? What a slam, if I must say so.</p>
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Why? These two colleges aren’t that easy to get into and are more selective than USC.</p>
<p>It’s more like it that the folks in BC just figured that Katherine would attend Georgetown, her mom’s college.</p>
<p>[Political</a> Muscle : Los Angeles Times : Schwarzenegger Kid Eyes College](<a href=“Archive blogs”>Archive blogs)</p>
<p>The Earl of Bedpan - LOLOLOL!!! You have to warn us midday coffee drinkers, I’ve got to wipe my keyboard.</p>
<p>I guess Boston College got free PR out of this.</p>
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I would expect the governator’s daughter to get in to UCLA or Berkeley. (sorry, I don’t know how to to the nice quote box)</p>
<p>Maybe she did get in, we don’t know. Maybe she preferred USC for what it has to offer. We don’t know what her criteria are, nor what she plans to study. Maybe she got into GWU and Georgetown too, and others as well. And who knows why she didn’t get into BC and whether it was a first choice or not.</p>
<p>Who cares about the Governor of California or the President of the United States!!??!!</p>
<p>I want to be related to </p>
<p>THE EARL OF BEDPAN!</p>
<p>Oh my! I’m still laughing! :D</p>
<p>How surprising are many of these comments! It’s sort of the dark side of cc coming out in so many backhanded and outright slams (she’s not even 'going away" to college!) </p>
<p>And how hypocritical. We advise kids to go for the school with the best “fit,” whose strengths match theirs, and then we judge a stranger (a 17-year old, no less) because her choice of schools lacks status in the eyes of the ivy-admirers and USNWR numbers checkers. And, if that weren’t enough, we find fault with the level of her parents’ celebrity, downranking the girl in relation to her more famous cousin, since she couldn’t “do better”? </p>
<p>Come on. Judging kids by which college they choose to attend is ridiculous. Where is our compassion for students who are waitlisted and/or rejected and joy for those going on to college, whichever one they prefer?</p>
<p>It is well known that I am an admirer of many non-ivy colleges, including USC, and I wish there was less of a need to slam schools on this forum.</p>
<p>madbean, the not ‘going away’ to college comment was mine, and it was not backhanded or a slam of any sort. What I meant – but maybe not phrased well – was that Katherine Schwartzenegger’s choice of school was very different from the kinds of traditional college choices of the well-connected, monied elite in this country. Which is usually elite east coast, often Ivy League schools. This was not a slam on USC or Maria Shriver’s daughter – rather an observation of how this girl chose her own way – probably for her own ‘fit’ – and against the grain of the tradition in her very own family.</p>
<p>Maria Shriver’s comment was also not to slam anyone or any school. It was to make people laugh about the irony of Tim Russert offering his own 'Boston" and “catholic” connections to help her daughter get into BC – as if Shriver, a Kennedy educated in elite catholic schools wouldn’t have her own connections! And the whole story was even more ironic that the girl DIDN’T get into BC despite all of those combined connections. </p>
<p>I too am an admirer of non-ivy schools, my brothers went to no-name jcs and then state schools and did just fine in life, thank you; I went to Cal, H went to USCB and Cal, he was a professor at a major western public university and an administrator at an exclusive private back east. We’ve been connected to the whole gamut of schools in America. And we do not slam them. Instead, we marvel at the wealth of educatonal choices in this country for us little people as well as for the children of the gilded and monied celebrity elite.</p>
<p>I hope I made myself clear now.</p>
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<p>Au contraire. USC has often been the choice of the well-connected, monied elite in California for decades. Hence its (former?) nicknames, U. of Spoiled Children, and U$(cent sign). (BTW, I am a big fan of USC. This was not meant to be a “slam.”)</p>
<p>Yes, but here we’re talking about the east coast elite from which Maria Shriver hails. </p>
<p>As a Cal grad, I’m well aware of the U of Spoiled Children reputation of USC – and also of the fact that it’s now become an academic powerhouse.</p>
<p>It’s awfully unkind to judge this young woman so harshly. Her mother is extremely bright and articulate, so it hardly seems fair to assume she is lacking in intelligence. (Her father may be equally bright – have to say I don’t know that much about him.) Like many of our own stellar kiddos, she applied to college in a year with unprecedented numbers of applicants and was offered a spot on the waitlist at this one particular school. What’s to be ashamed of?!</p>
<p>There’s nothing to be ashamed of. I think that’s mostly the point of this thread!! But since it’s clearly being misinterpreted, maybe it’s time to close it. Moderator?</p>
<p>Take a look at the Los Angeles Times photograph of Katherine Schwarzenegger. Like her mother Maria, she’s the spitting image of Rose Kennedy. Talk about strong genes!</p>
<p>USC is kind of a big deal here in Cal. Unless a student desires a Catholic education, from what I have observed very few Californians would choose BC (or even Georgetown) over USC. USC is probably one of the most well-rounded universities in the country. Her acceptance is impressive.</p>
<p>Well katliamom, I apologize for mis-reading your comment. I do see how you meant it now. I guess I always feel bad for the kid getting judged.</p>
<p>I’d rather know what she plans to study than where she will study. Good luck to her!</p>