Why has this boring story become “featured”?
Some of us don’t find it boring but I can imagine that if it were the mayor of LA or Seattle I wouldn’t be as interested.
Here’s an article that says he was accepted at Amherst and also toured Wesleyan and Columbia
http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2015/04/8566983/accepted-brown-and-amherst-dante-de-blasio-picks-yale
@fallenchemist , doesn’t Malia Obama graduate from HS next year?
Yes, Malia is a high school junior. There have been reports of her touring some colleges, like any other girl at her school would be doing. Will she follow her mother to Princeton? Go to the Democratic politicians’ kids’ favorite, Brown? Maybe she’d consider a school like Spelman. Time will tell.
As a Yale grad, I could not care less. The school cares, though I think 95% of that is: will this mean we get more $$$$. (Add a few $$$$$ signs.)
In my day, I cared when Jennifer Beals enrolled because she was really good looking.
Back when I attended Stuy, the overall population was a bit under 3000 though that was counteracted somewhat by the fact it allocated around 900 seats for the incoming freshman class as opposed to ~800 sometime after the early '00s I read in the alumni report.
Then again, the attrition rate for our incoming freshman class due to students voluntarily leaving because of workload or other issues was such less than 700 made it to graduation. From what I’ve heard from older alums, that attrition rate wasn’t considered unusual.
LOL. That hair is epic, alright. Congrats, Dante!
"And there is no reason for it not to be. It is the same as when Emma Watson picked Brown, and even back before the instant media days, like when Brooke Shields picked Princeton and Jodie Foster went to Yale. “”
Brooke Shields et al were nationally known celebrities. Dante de Blasio isn’t.
As a non-New Yorker, I don’t see why I’d care. Do you guys care where Rahm Emanuel’s kids go to college? Didn’t think so. How about the mayor of LA? I don’t even know who that is, nor do I have any reason to.
I think this thread may win the award for people specifically opening a thread to say they don’t care about its topic.
Insert head-scratching emoticon here.
It’s amusing how so many don’t care about where this young man is going to college. Truth be told, how many of us really care about where most kids here on CC go to college, and yet, we continue to stick around, read, and comment for years!
It just seems like an arbitrary “celebrity” to call out and be featured. Look, my local weatherman’s kid is going to U of I - let’s start a thread!
sorry, fc, I don’t see anything close to the college choice of son of a mayor, even a Big City mayor, to that of a childs stars on big, critically-acclaimed movies with national and international interest; or the President’s daughters, who are also known internationally.
What is Donte’s claim to fame? He did an ad for his dad? Is that unusual?
@Pizzagirl: Eric Garcetti.
The other evening someone relayed to me that MIT students are now referring to Harvard as “that arts and crafts school down the road.” I did get a chuckle out of that one.
My goodness some of you are so serious! I would argue that the mayor of New York is usually known nationally. I don’t think there is one other city where people that follow news even casually and that are far from NYC can still name a number of past mayors. Koch, Dinkins, Giuliani, Bloomberg all came to my mind within a half second of trying. And though I didn’t instantly recall them, if there was a Jeopardy answer “Abe Beame and John Lindsay” I would easily come up with the correct question “Who were former mayors of NYC?”. And though I implied it, just to be perfectly clear I have never lived in the metro NYC area. RI is by far the closest place I have lived to there.
I mean it isn’t like the site went tabloid and titled this “Son of NYC mayor will attend Yale to be with pregnant girlfriend and her alien lover in romantic triangle”. It’s just a piece of news. I had no idea the feature stories had to pass such a rigorous suitability test. 
Well hey, at least the pinned threads here change. Which is more than I can say for the vast majority of forums on here.
Heck, at least our pinned threads aren’t locked like half of the places I frequent on CC.
They aren’t pinned, they are featured. The whole idea of pinning a thread is that is stays for a long time because it has lasting value. Sometimes a year if it has to do with an admissions class, often much longer. 
Harvard students consider MIT the little trade school down the road. . . I heard this about 30 years ago, nothing new.
“would argue that the mayor of New York is usually known nationally. I don’t think there is one other city where people that follow news even casually and that are far from NYC can still name a number of past mayors”
Again, Rahm Emanuel was / is known nationally for his role with the first Obama campaign / term - far, far more than DeBlasio – and yet still I wouldn’t think people on cc would care where his children went to college. I doubt people (outside Chicago) care where the members of the Daley mayoral dynasty went either.
If we were talking the Obama children that might be different. They aren’t “unknown.” Dante DeBlasio is. No offense to the young man. I wish him well.
You miss my point. Sure I know Emanuel is mayor of Chicago, but I can’t name his predecessor or any other Chicago mayors beyond Daly (both of them). I suspect most people can’t. With NYC they can. As an office it is far more prominent and therefore in general its officeholders nationally known. So it is somewhat more likely that people that do have at least a passing interest in what college choices kids of prominent celebrities, politicians, sports figures, etc. make will be more interested in the choice associated with the mayor of New York than other mayors, and certainly more than your local weatherman. Emmanuel would probably be an exception. If Emmanuel’s kids end up going to college while he is still in office I suspect that might generate a thread as well. And you probably won’t care about that one either, I would guess based on your comments. I get it that you don’t care about people like this, but others might. Surely you don’t assume that everyone likes and dislikes exactly what you like and dislike.
That’s great that you don’t care about the kids of NYC mayors either. Then don’t bother with the thread. Seems simple. It isn’t like it costs extra paper to put this up. We didn’t have to increase our exorbitant membership fee to run the extra threads. What exactly is the point of complaining about a harmless, non-controversial thread topic, featured or not? I don’t understand why people don’t just ignore topics they don’t care about, just like they skip entire sections of newspapers if they have no interest. It isn’t like the title isn’t quite clear as to the thread topic. JMHO.
But no, omigod! I must open this thread to write about why it’s not worth opening!