I haven’t participated on this board for months, but I decided to reset my password and sign in again to let you know that I don’t care where the Mayor of NYC’s son goes to college.
Then this thread was not relevant for you. Are you going to find every thread on CC that you don’t care about and post that same proclamation? I can easily imagine it isn’t of any interest at all to 80% of the membership. So what? As I said, there is zero marginal cost in posting something that a minority of CC members might like knowing. All you had to do was read the title of the thread and move on to something else.
I changed my mind and decided I care deeply about what school he chose. I found it fascinating. So there is a net benefit in this thread being posted and featured since I would have missed it otherwise, and it can’t possibly do anyone else harm or offense. So by essentially saying you would rather CC not post these kinds of things in the future, you are trying to lessen the benefit I get from this site to please yourself. That doesn’t seem very nice.
Obviously I am being satirical, but this site is for a wide variety of interests. I am baffled by those that feel the need to show disapproval of others tastes and interests about something so harmless, so innocuous. There really are times, it seems to me, when it is better to just pass over threads that don’t interest you, instead of feeling the need to comment on every little thing.
Hey, I’m just happy no one has said he got in because of Affirmative Action. (
But is it really so hard to fathom that some people might be mildly interested in where deBlasio’s son chose to go to college, especially on a website/message board whose entire reason for being is college admission? They have both been fairly recently and prominently featured in the national spotlight in the wake of the Mayor’s statement concerning the Eric Garner case. Not many national political figures are white men married to black women, and who have children from that union. This is still America, where such things are deemed big deals to some people, so I can only scratch my head over the obvious offense some people seem to be taking over the existence of this thread. This goes beyond not caring where he goes to college, because mere disinterest would cause most people to skip the thread altogether, as fallenchemist has already pointed out. This seems to be about people actually being offended for some reason or other. Perhaps they should ask themselves why that’s the case.
fallenchemist, I was totally joking. I agree that it’s ridiculous to criticize the validity of any thread, or whether or not it’s “featured.” I am always amused when people bother to post “who cares” on any topic.
HotCanary- who cares that you were only joking.
good one, Tom! 
Duly noted, @HotCanary. Since sarcasm is notoriously difficult to discern on the internet, might I suggest the use at the end of your message of the winky face emoji or some similar device in the future.
^I thought it was over the top enough to be clear.
Unfortunately I read posts worded very similarly to that all the time that are 100% serious. 
Thank you. As the OP of this thread, I am happy about that too!
Some MIT friends referred to Harvard as “that finishing school for wealthy dilettantes”. Felt that was odd as most HS classmates and older alums would feel that descriptive is much more applicable to Princeton before they changed admissions policies to admit more public magnet and public school kids.
Granted, the MIT/Caltech/CMU crowd at my HS enjoyed ribbing those admitted to Ivies or similar peer colleges along similar lines. Granted, part of this is because there was a heavy engineering/CS bent among a critical mass of HS classmates including those in the top quarter of our graduating class.
Some Harvard friends regarded MIT as a haven for party-crazed tech obsessed nerds who were “too preprofessional for their own good”.
The party part does have some truth to it as MIT and its frats were known for throwing some of the best college parties in the greater Boston area when I lived there in the late '90s/early '00s.
I wouldn’t be so sure about that considering he was in the national news not only for helping his father in his mayoral campaign, but also for being the flashpoint for angry police and their supporters when it became known he received “the talk” about how he needed to be careful around police officers because of racial profiling issues because he’s half-Black and tall.
Ancient H/MIT joke:
Student is standing in the 12 items or fewer line at Star Market on Mass Ave. Student clearly has too many items. Checkout lady snarls, “Kid, what’s your problem? Are you from Harvard and you can’t count, or MIT and you can’t read?”
B-)
Thing today is you can’t tell who goes or went where. Time was you wore the shirt from your school but now people wear any shirt and stores and stands all over sell college name shirts. There are vast numbers of Harvard and MIT shirts around Boston. So in some ways, it’s become more a thing to not wear your school’s stuff off campus.
The same is true of Yale and lesser known schools. Time was people would stop me to talk about Yale if I had a shirt on - most were also grads - and now if I ask, the person almost never went there.
Well Dante is the son of my mayor, whom I really dislike. But Dante, himself, seems like a charming and normal young man and I am delighted to learn of his success. I hadn’t heard this locally so this is a news flash for me. I am hoping Dante will have a happy and fulfilling experience in college and continue to reflect well on the City, his school and his family as he has done so far.
I didn’t know about the De Blasio family but I knew about the ad, because it featured a biracial family and the kid was clearly African American, with an Afro, so it made a big impression on me. I learned about “stop and frisk” in that ad, too. I looked them up and learned about the NYC mayoral campaign and then followed a little, even though I live nowhere near New York. To me, De Blasio is known because of Dante, so thank you for this thread.
I was kind of surprised that the thread elicited so much hostility, it’s puzzling to me, but I too am happy no one quipped he only got in because of Affirmative Action.
And since in the parent cafe people discuss absolutely everything, I don’t see why THIS shouldn’t be discussed. In addition, “where celebrity offsprings go to college” seems a perfect CollegeConfidential twist on the celebrity page. So if Jeb Bush, Sarah Palin, Ted Cruz, Elizabeth Warren, Rahm Emmanuel, President Obama, etc, etc… have kids going to college, plus Taraji P. Henson, Sofia Vergara,Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie, Madonna, Taye Diggs, Eva Longoria, and all the child actors (beside Emma Watson, some must have gone to college, right?)… it seems perfectly fine to have a “celebrity kid college” thread. 
Considering Parents’ cafe has discussions about everything, including Mayweather v Pacquiao, I’m surprised there wasn’t a thread dedicated to the Royal Baby Princess :D…just kidding… but seriously, what’s wrong with a celebrity college thread for fun?
I think the objection is that this is not a general celebrity thread, but somehow it was brought to the status of a featured thread. I guess CCers were under the impression that featured threads are supposed to be devoted to subjects reasonably expected to be relevant (to some degree) to the majority of cafe visitors (that’s why the Diet, Exercise, etc. thread is never a featured one 
).
That’s exactly it. It’s the fact that it was featured, not the fact that it was brought up.
The other featured thread is “What are the top sports colleges recruit for?” I can’t see that as being relevant to the majority of cafe visitors. Most parents whose kids do sports chose sports for their young children based on what the kids seem to like, and by the time the kids are in high school, it’s probably too late to take up a sport in hopes of getting an edge in college admissions anyway.
My kid is a senior this year. We live in the midwest. She heard about Dante DeBlasio’s going to Yale. It’s interesting to her and her friends b/c this is a live person who has been somewhat visible on the national stage and is in their grade and doing the same college search & selection process that’s engrossed them for the last 1.5 years. For my 18 year old, this is very relevant and interesting news.
For me, an old Yale alumnus, it’s mildly interesting. But I also met a bunch of the Yale-admitted seniors from my locality and found THEM to be immensely interesting. I’m much more interested in following their success at Yale than Mr. DeBlasio. These kids were similarly accomplished, IMHO.
I’m actually mildly interested in where Rahm Emmanuel’s kids would go - and I happen to know he attended Sarah Lawrence which always surprises me.
And there was a huge amount of flack about his campaign spot because Dante obviously gave de Blasio diversity cred.