<p>I know, this feels unreal. Like I got accepted to another school today where I’d be happy going, so I’m feeling a ton of relief.</p>
<p>@treehugga: Oh, no worries, “Gossip Girl” is the best. T-3 hours and 45 minutes until the mid-season finale (well, for me)</p>
<p>And, some of you guys are so lucky that you’ve already heard back from some of your early action schools…I haven’t heard back from anywhere and I’m dying of curiosity, mostly because I am just the most impatient person ever.</p>
<p>@jrm927: Yeah, it feels a lot more real once your friends start getting accepted. I was totally in the same boat as you and like not thinking about finding out, etc. hardly at all, but ever since my best friend got into her ED on Friday I’m literally like dying. I check this website more than my Facebook…</p>
<p>I just want it to come fast because I know whatever decision it is, its inevitable… WHY CANT I JUST FIND OUT NOW :[ They Obvs finished reading it… all my stuff was properly tracked by the 17th! </p>
<p>And yeah, I don’t watch tv at all. Everything I watch is online. I don’t think I know how to turn on my tv… but my computer stays on like all day, everyday.</p>
<p>Gossip Girl used to film around my school a lot back when the characters were still in High School. They actually film the (real) prep school girls to make the scenes seem more realistic. I’m not really interested in that stuff, but I know my friends went out during their frees and actually watched them film. Apparently, the blonde-haired girl (Selena? Serena?) has boobs that actually look MUCH bigger in real life, and the blonde-guy is actually that good looking.</p>
<p>I once saw the dark-haired guy who plays the poor guy in front of the subway station on 59th and lex, across the street from bloomingdales. Honestly, they look like regular people. I feel like alot of the (regular) people in NYC are really good looking and I think some of my friends could be just as attractive, so I dunno whats so special about them. I dont know why, but somehow I thought celebrities would be like… radiant… But theyre just normal-looking people (perhaps a bit better looking than average though).</p>
<p>Guys (and I dont mean for this to be offensive), I just realized I have a major concern.
Is Barnard next year going to be full of tourists? Hmm… :/</p>
<p>tourists as in people not from the city? probably haha…my idea of fun isn’t going to times square to “see the lights” or whatever the heck people do.</p>
<p>and I like gossip girl for that reason, because they’re (semi) normal people living in nyc. they remind me of a lot of people i know and stuff.</p>
<p>@noloserhere: That’s really cool! I saw them filming a couple years ago when I was visiting New York…</p>
<p>And, haha, by tourists do you mean non-New Yorkers? Because I’m not a New Yorker, but I refuse to believe I’m a tourist. I am overly OCD when I go there about making sure I don’t look like one and I know my way around the city really well.</p>
<p>@noloserhere: Tourists? I don’t follow…do you mean prospies (like us lol)?</p>
<p>@treehugga</p>
<p>Hahahaha What are you talking about? Gossip Girl characters are far from normal!
So one show I actually HAVE watched is a show called “NYC Prep.” They followed around six real nyc prep school kids. </p>
<p>I actually knew one of the kids featured on the show and had mutual friends with two of the others. And they tried to make Gossip Girl situations seem viable in real life. They interviewed bazillions of kids and picked out the worst ones haha. </p>
<p>But the total truth of the matter is that the kids chosen to be featured on that show were completely ostracized in real life! No one actually liked them. And their habits were actually ABNORMAL, not normal for nyc private school kids like the show tried to suggest. In real life, its generally considered very distasteful to flaunt your wealth. nyc1994 may or may not agree with me, but this is what I understand from my experience. You aren’t really supposed to be ostentatious.</p>
<p>The most ostracized kids are the ones who like to flaunt their wealth. I think its the understanding that having money doesn’t make you any special. Its makes you a loser for showing it off.</p>
<p>Anyway, NYC Prep was such a funny show for my friends. Because everyone knew the kids on the show–they were infamous because they were considered such losers in real life–and everything they were recorded doing on the show just made everyone laugh and dislike them much more lol. Also, half of the scenarios were fake. Like one of the girls tried to make up her exciting life…</p>
<p>Okay, no offense to nyc1994, but honestly… I don’t think private school kids have social skills… I’m just generalizing here, but they’re SO socially inept! I’m okay with drinking and weed but I really don’t think it MAKES you cool to drink or smoke. SMH. They don’t know how to keep up a conversation unless its about talking about someone else or about drinking/smoking! All they ever do is talk other people or make really lame parties sound like the craziest ****.</p>
<p>-.- I mean, I think its really pathetic… Ranting about a crazy party does not make you cool…</p>
<p>@noloserhere: Oh, two of my friends watched that show…they tried to make me watch an episode and I couldn’t even make it through 20 minutes. I’m just not a reality show girl…but, yeah, I get what you mean. They have made reality shows about high schools in my area, as well, and they are pretty off-base.</p>
<p>Idk I know some people from the prep schools in ny that remind me so much of the characters in gossip girl its creepy! </p>
<p>I think the whole private school scene is just different, personally. Coming for a normal public school, but having my whole family go to a prep school makes me see both sides.</p>
<p>Well in New York, there are a lot of catholic private prep school with kids who are just as normal as regular public school kids. Even though these are prep schools, I don’t relate them to the discussion of private school in NYC because at least those kids are relatable! Haha. </p>
<p>But elite NYC prep schools are kind of different in the sense that they’re insanely selective. The top prep schools (Collegiate, Brearley, Chapin), are incredibly hard to get into… IQ tests, several assessment tests, interviews, etc. Collegiate only accepts 20-30 kids per grade and touts a 95% ivy-league matriculation rate. The three schools I named are very hardcore and work-intensive. If you’re smart enough to get into these schools and you can’t afford tuition, they will give you a full ride. They’re legit no joke.</p>
<p>And then you have lower tier prep schools which are filled with kids who aren’t as smart, but can afford to pay. NYC prep schools are a bit different because statistically speaking, getting in is just as hard/thorough as college admissions and oftentimes harder. Not only are they so hard, tuition is like $40,000 a year.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what schools your friends are from, but the main reason I dislike the general scene is because I think that growing up in such a small, isolated environment really deformed their social skills…</p>
<p>The only real difference between public and private school where I live is public school has more funding and smaller class sizes…I don’t know, it mostly just affects the level of education you receive as opposed to social skills. I mean, granted, everyone does know everything everyone has ever done because private schools tend to be smaller, but I wouldn’t say that one group is more or less socially adept than the other. I know plenty of socially awkward people at public school and plenty at my school.</p>
<p>hey, ladies! let’s get back to this optimism game! yallah and i are seeing the lion king next week!! has anyone seen it?</p>
<p>@milleciron: aw buzzkill i actually thought the NYC prep schools discussion was quite interesting… But if you have something optimistic to say, go right ahead! This is an all-welcoming, no-judgment zone :)</p>
<p>I’m from northern nj suburbia, so this nyc prep school thing is a whole new world to me. I had a friend who went to brearly though. I’ve always known she was smart, but those admissions stats are intense! I’m not so into the private school thing, because I’ve had quite a few friends transfer from public to private and seen them develop a kind of obnoxiousness (caution, word choice?) that seriously turns me off, they’re still good friends, but they’re not the same people I hung out with when they went to school with me. But it’s totally different in various locations, so please: educate me.
As to social adeptness, there are wide ranges and levels of awkwardness at every school, from the social elite stereotype to the complete inward bookworm stereotype. But again, that’s just my experience. Carry on :P</p>
<p>@PeaceLoveTheatre</p>
<p>I’m afraid you took my comment in the wrong way. I just think its pretty immature to talk about weed all the time under the pretext that it’ll give you “street cred.” There are definitely tons of different sorts of people at these schools, but the most talked-about people (“popular,” though I wouldn’t consider them very well-liked) seem to be incapable of holding up a real conversation. Its amusing to talk about something funny someone did at a party last night, but its just as nice to talk about a book you read. Just what I think: they aren’t incapable of holding up real conversation, just unwilling due to social consciousness. As in, the prevailing notion is that: drinking/doing pot a lot (and talking about it) makes you cool.</p>
<p>And I’m not a prude. My friends I do that stuff. I just don’t think its cool to talk about it all the time or act as if someone is unworthy because they choose not to do anything risky. Its just a personal trait… I don’t find any interest in gossip and I don’t care if someone hooked up with someone else last night.</p>
<p>Haha, so I guess the title “Gossip Girl” does apply to them.</p>
<p>but i agree. lets stop talking about nyc private school kids. im afraid someone is going to find me and ask me who i am :(</p>
<p>you guys should all go ask nyc1994. she messaged me and I know she goes to a nyc private school. </p>
<p>okay… happier subjects?</p>
<p>um… i have no happy news in my life. I hate calculus. Hate physics, but I have a test on Friday. I also have a 14 pg paper due Thursday… and a lit project due wednesday. omg i hate my life </p>
<p>:( 
ummmm optimism!
at least all my major due dates will be done with before decisions? at least i got my period this week, so i wont get too overemotional next week? (im not usually this TMI. anonymity does things to you…) What other optimistic notes… Uh, I’ve been flirting with the guy I had a crush on in 9th grade. Hes older + less clueless now, so he’s flirting back? He’s applying to SEAS and I’m applying to Barnard and I hope we both get in?</p>
<p>@noloserhere: Oh, I wasn’t referring to the drinking thing…you were talking about how a lot of kids from the private schools flaunt their wealth and I agree that that is untasteful. I was just saying that, where I live, that isn’t usually the case…it’s all good, no worries 
And, I hate Calculus, too. I am studying for my last test of the semester as we speak 
PS: Not to sound clueless, but what is SEAS?</p>
<p>Haha I’m glad you weren’t offended. But just to clarify, a lot of people don’t flaunt their wealth–a few do, and those few are disliked. </p>
<p>SEAS is one of Columbia’s undergraduate colleges, next to Columbia College. SEAS is the School of Engineering and Applied Science (also known as Fu Foundation School of Engineering). </p>
<p>This is ridiculous, but looking back on it now, high school went by extremely quickly… Its really not a time-line for me. I feel like I might still be in 9th grade. No distinct changes or distinctions in terms of the way I was. I really can’t wait for college. I go to the type of school where everyone knows each other. I really can’t wait to meet new people! I heard Columbia has a load of pretentious people, but I hope mostly everyone is friendly! I’m sure that Barnard will be friendly though ;)</p>
<p>speaking of Gossip Girl…did anyone SEEEEE last night’s episode?? :’(</p>
<p>Well, private school or not, anyone who chooses Barnard is AMAZING. </p>
<p>I think Barnard will be friendly.</p>
<p>@medrix: i didn’t see it! i watch it online usually.</p>