<p>^^ Very funny! :D</p>
<p>I think it’s cruel.</p>
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<p>So, you’re saying CC is familiar to you? ;)</p>
<p>Conan is a desperate man, making fun of a Yale hopeful at this time of the year. Clearly he has no children and thinks he is younger than he is. Also, he has a very, very big head. Just sayin’</p>
<p>aaaaaaaaaand…
[du dada dah]
He went to Harvard.</p>
<p>Oh come on some of you need a sense of humor! It was a joke! Yikes!</p>
<p>^Except it wasn’t all that funny. Not even mildly entertaining. Then they say, she should go to Arizona State. What was that supposed to mean? A bit absurd if you ask me.</p>
<p>Ms. Milestone made a video that is going viral. Real viruses are generally not good things. People who loose viral cultural artifacts upon the world and then have to deal with unforeseen consequences would do well to remember that. Some people thought Ms. Milestone’s video was cute. Others have called it desperate. Conan’s team thought it provided fodder for a viral video of their own. So what? I’d not have been surprised if they invited her on the show as a guest. That might have been “nicer,” but not as funny. Ms. Milestone is presumably a smart young woman, so she could have predicted that some people would find her video ridiculous rather than charming. But maybe, like many people her age, she is self-absorbed enough not to have considered that possibility. So now she’s wiser.</p>
<p>Allow me to make a small distiction. Ms Milestone is still a kid in many ways. It could be just me but I do wish Cornan just left her alone, let it go viral on its own if it has to be, not put more fuel to this. It is a minor issue as issues go. It doesn’t affect society at large whatever her outcome may be. Did Cornan have to take it up and make a satire out of it? If a billionaire had tried to do something absurd to influence a bigger society, sure take him up. But this?</p>
<p>I think the Conan O’Brien video actually tips the scales a bit in her favor. Also, I liked her dogs in the Yale shirts.</p>
<p>I get that she is a kid, really I do. Maybe Conan’s video (a cheap shot? perhaps) will teach her an adult-sized lesson about how social media work.</p>
<p>I thought the Conan bit was funny and I bet Ms. M did too (at least I hope she did). </p>
<p>As for the people that have been saying they would find it offensive if her video got her a spot over a more deserving applicant- I disagree. At that level almost all applicants are identical in terms of GPAs, SATs etc. At one of the info sessions we went to we were told that the school could randomly admit its applicants and probably do almost as well as the ‘holistic’ process. Whether the ‘little something extra’ that one applicant has over another is their ECs or their creativity, it doesn’t matter. If they think she is creative and that she would add something to the incoming class, then, great, she ‘deserves’ it as much as someone who had a different ‘hook’ on their app.</p>
<p>^I don’t have a sense of humor:) Glad to know Ms M may enjoy it. I am a stick in the mud. I’d be mortified with Conan’s contribution if she were my kid.</p>
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<p>This is, to me, a big SO WHAT? These parents’ so-called friends are clearly doddering, out of touch idiots with no sense of the world today if they think that HYP are the only colleges worth attending – and they are not *good people * if they would be anything other than friendly and supportive to their friends’ children, whether those friends’ children are winning Nobel Prizes or working at the record store. If these “HYP-educated successful” parents haven’t taught their children not to care about the opinions of doddering, out of town idiots who aren’t nice people either, then these “HYP-educated successful” parents aren’t as bright as the names on their diploma would indicate.</p>
<p>Maybe Conan, as a Harvard grad, was just poking fun at Yale.</p>
<p>jym, that got me thinking. Conan would be supportive of the girl and funnier, if he said send her to H instead of saying send her to Arizona State.</p>
<p>True, Igloo, that could have been funny…</p>
<p>One thing I noticed is that the Conan video matched hers, echoed her, and did not surpass it in quality or wit or production quality- so it was an homage to her video in a way, one video winking at the other on the same level about the same ridiculous situation. Not so much a diss to Ms. M, IMO.</p>
<p>The satire is about college apps, overall, and how obsessive about it some can be. Don’t you think Ms M was poking a little fun at herself to make this point, while displaying her wit, creativity and other talents to Yale???</p>
<p>Conan had to mirror her. My objection was not so much to what’s on Conan’s clip. Rather his jumping into the foray making it more viral. Who knows Ms M may welcome it?</p>
<p>@TV4Caster We don’t know her stats. They could be great, or they could be very sub-par. I guess that’s why I’m confused about everyone hoping she gets in. They know nothing about her except that she made a video for Yale…</p>
<p>@born2dance94 but we do know that she was deferred, not rejected, meaning that her stats are probably not sub-par. I know many kids with near perfect stats who were rejected by Yale EA this year, so I’m willing to assume that she is a competitive applicant.</p>
<p>She is a legacy though, so this may have helped her get this deferral rather than an outright rejection.</p>