<p>If PC is related to Sesame Street…I suspect that he didn’t listen very often.</p>
<p>“Hmmm. I wonder why Richard Lawson, a 24-year-old sales coordinator in the Gawker Media ad department, has such an unhealthy obsession with Middlebury.”</p>
<p>Well, I can tell you that 40 years ago, at Stuyvesant (my, am I getting old!), the guidance counselor used to threaten us with Middlebury if we didn’t get our grades up. None of us knew what or where Middlebury was, but it was considered the kiss of death.</p>
<p>Yeah, and 40 years ago Duke was a regional school that few outside of the Southeast had heard of. Things change a lot in four decades.</p>
<p>Oh, I know it is a very fine school, don’t get me wrong (and it probably was 40 years, though I wouldn’t know). But you wondered where the “obsession” came from, and…</p>
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Hear hear.
He also said Teresa (of Real Housewives of NJ fame) de Medici’s forehead went to Middlebury and never came back. It’s actually very endearing that he keeps mentioning Middlebury in the same context 4 decades back.</p>
<p>^ Especially since Teresa from Real Housewives of New Jersey probably has NO IDEA what a “Middlebury” is!!</p>
<p>love the NY Times article in the Styles section over the weekend where the other prep schools are bashing these kids, saying they didn’t come from the “top” ones. (yea, right, like the students at the top NY Preps don’t have casual sex, do drugs or drink underage) I had to laugh.</p>
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In one article (New York magazine, maybe?), a Brearley official sniffed that you’d never find a Brearley student on the show. Although it was created by a Brearley alum (and former faculty member, yet.)</p>
<p>People are funny. :D</p>
<p>New York Times Sunday Style section. I believe the show was, at one point execed by Wendy Riche. It was being shopped around two years ago. </p>
<p>And yes, Dalton, Spence and Chapin students would NEVER drink underage or party…puhleeze!</p>
<p>yep, I laughed too–especially thinking what the folks at Nightingale-Bamford were saying as they read the article. Consensus way back when my kid was young was that N-B was the 4th best all girls school after Brearley, Spence, and Chapin. N-B though has been among the most successful, if not THE most successful in obtaining racial diversity. It’s the “it” girls school for prominent Af-Am parents in NYC.</p>
<p>IMHO Mini’s post #15 is spot on.</p>
<p>The show isn’t anything mind-blowing, but it’s entertaining. That’s what TV shows are about, especially the reality-types. It’s entertaining to watch superficials get jealous about superficial things and all the “drama”. NYC Prep is definitely not something that is worth re-watching or even following closely; when you have nothing to do and want a bit of entertainment is where this show shines.</p>
<p>As an NYC teen (granted, one who goes to a <em>gasp</em> public school) who knows a few of the kids on the show (not well), I think it’s important to note that while the show itself is scripted (they got the kids first and then introduced them to each other and have made sure that they all attend some of the same parties and meet up to be filmed together once in a while), these kids’ lives are not - yes, sex and drugs happen at prep schools, perhaps more often or more intensely than at public schools, but sometimes these kids, whether knowingly or not, show us something important about how our society functions. I agree that most of them will probably do very well by society’s standards, but that for most of them it will be an automatic thing as they started off very well by the same standards. Their lives may seem “better” and more successful, but it would be foolish to say that their own actions are “better” or have given them that success.</p>
<p>i hate to appear sexist, but many of these girls are prolly just gonna end up as trophy wives for husbands who have multiple affairs. they act so promiscuously, have no sense of respect for themselves, let a$$hole guys play them like their b1tches, and seem to have no compulsion to accomplish anything for themselves.</p>
<p>if that’s the top .1%'s version of ending up homeless and unemployed, then I guess they deserve their hell.</p>
<p>Not to be mean or anything, but future “trophy wives”??? There is a lot on competition out there for those jobs, and from what I have observed looks count. A lot. </p>
<p>I think the female cast members on this show, with the exception perhaps of the one public school girl, better hit the books and figure out a way to support themselves.</p>
<p>Jessie (“I’m inta Fashion”) reminds me of so many girls at my boarding school. Here it is almost 40 years later…some things never change! There were alot of Barnard girls like that, too, when I moved to NY. They turn out fine but no better or worse than anybody else.</p>
<p>well thank god i never went to boarding school just Jessie seems ridiculously annoying and *****y. pc is also annoying and stuck up and probably gay. kelly is really cute and sweet but a little too obsessed with sebastien, who seems just about as pretentious as the majority of good looking guys, but like a relatively nice guy. camille is nice at times and very weird at other times. taylor is nice but her whole boy drama thing annoys me since she keeps bringing up the idea of social status or whatever, which is just stupid. also i have less than six degrees of seperation from all those public school kids since my friend goes to stuy</p>
<p>overall, the show is ridiculous but somehow very entertaining at the same time.</p>
<p>After seeing this thread, I had to watch an episode online. Fifteen minutes later and 3 dozen b- words and casual sex brags, I fell asleep on the desk. A few minutes later, I woke up to - suprise! - the exact same b- words and casual sex brags. If these are the creme de la creme and Ivy admits, no thanks. I’m sure Daddy’s $$$ can buy them a diploma and VP position but these kids are already jaded and bored with life.</p>
<p>Resurrecting this old thread only because I watched today. (Obviously re-runs.)</p>
<p>Has anyone on this thread ever heard of editing? This is editing for entertainment…or did you not notice that not a single discussion of today’s classes, this week’s tests, papers, etc., is even once discussed? The closest thing to academic discussion is the mention of college a few times. But with all the focus on social life and all the angst about community service and power-plays within that, you would think for a tiny minute that this is all that goes on in competitive high schools, and zero studying gets done. Well, if the script was actually proportional to the real-time value, I could see the reason for concern. It’s a TV Show! :)</p>
<p>As for “Ivy admits,” well one is going to FIT, another to a rolling admissions L.A. college, another to Boston College. (Those are Ivies? Who knew?) ;)</p>