Gwyneth Paltrow II

[cancan]

Oct 20, 2023 22:41:08 GMT -4 cancan said:

Oct 20, 2023 20:21:38 GMT -4 boxofrocks said:

I'm surprised that Apple went to college at all and that it wasn't USC.

She's at Vanderbilt, no less. My son is a senior in high school and I've become pretty helicoptery about the whole college thing. Vanderbilt is a very tough admit! My kid is in the top 3% of his class with a 1540 SAT and a pilot's license and won't get in. I'm just curious whether Apple manifested her acceptance with visualization and positive affirmations, or with a big donation from her parents.

As a follow-up, Moses will be attending Brown next fall. Congratulations, I guess.

[boxofrocks]

Credit where credit's due to Paltrow and Martin encouraging their kids going to college, and challenging ones at that. Yes, they are privileged kids whose parents could afford all of the pre-admission advantages and I'm sure they won't be eating ramen out of necessity while enrolled, but Vanderbilt and the Ivy League are nothing to sneeze at. Is "My kids went to Vandy and Brown" the new "I went to Spence?"

[Auroranorth]

Oct 29, 2023 0:15:33 GMT -4 cremetangerine82 said:

See, this is why I can't like Gwyneth Paltrow. Instead of having a sense of humor about being a "nepo baby", she whines and whines about the term being offensive. When Jamie Lee Curtis won her Oscar, she joked about being a successful one. Fishstick is just insufferable.

Yes, at this point, Jamie Lee is very well respected as an actress, and she earned it over time. Sure, she got a leg up early on in her career because of her family. But out of Tony Curtis's six kids, she's the only one who made it big. Janet Leigh had Jamie and her sister Kelly, and I didn't know Kelly was an actress till I googled her just now.

[lea1977]

I wonder what Apple’s major is at Vanderbilt? I also wonder if she will attend Paris fashion week again like she did last year even though classes were in session at Vanderbilt.

[cremetangerine82]

I do praise her children for going to college. Why not if you don't have to worry about being $94,000 in debt?

[Sunnyhorse]

Isn’t Brown the refuge of the celeb kid? I kind of applauded Apple for choosing a school, elite though it might be, in flyover country. Hope she and her brother get degrees and real careers.

[cremetangerine82]

Brown is still Ivy League, so nothing to sneeze at.

[boxofrocks]

Dec 30, 2023 21:11:55 GMT -4 cremetangerine82 said:

I do praise her children for going to college. Why not if you don't have to worry about being $94,000 in debt?

If I won the lottery, I'd go back and study every topic my parents told me would never get me a job.

[prisma]

My problem is that all my academic interests are things that don’t have jobs attached to them. I think you can only safely go into liberal arts or fine arts if you have a financial safety net built in.

It scares me that the humanities are being eliminated from universities because that’s where you learn to communicate and understand how we as individuals and groups of all sizes function and transform. Kara Swisher often makes the point that these tech bros have never taken a humanities course and just see the world as something to exploit.

Anyhoo, I hope Moses is serious about his studies and maybe uses the opportunity to get a fantastic education rather than treating it as a pit stop on the way to a dj career or whatever else the nepo babies do.

[Beyle]

Dec 31, 2023 13:03:38 GMT -4 Sunnyhorse said:

Isn’t Brown the refuge of the celeb kid? I kind of applauded Apple for choosing a school, elite though it might be, in flyover country. Hope she and her brother get degrees and real careers.

IIRC, at Brown, there are no gen ed requirements. Students, kind of, create their own major program.

At least, that's how it used to be. Not sure if that's changed.

If the process is still the same, I could see a celebrity's kid thinking it might be the easiest way for them to attend an Ivy.