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Blog Round-up: Admissions Video

By 19 January 2010 2 Comments

The Youtube video of the new Yale Admissions Video which Bullblog brought to you Saturday has, needless to say, been picked up by some other blogs, including those run by the New York Times and the Washington Post.  For you Bullbloggers who are super busy and can’t be bothered, here’s an arbitrary round-up of interesting quotes from the most important blogs:

New York Times: “Many fans of Disney’s ‘High School Musical’ franchise are now old enough to apply to college.”

Gawker: “Most of the kids who go to Yale are shoe-polished relics from the 1950s. Well, OK, that’s not exactly true. But they are total dweebs.” / “What I want to know most of all, though, is: Why? Is Yale really that hard-up for strong students that they need to produce the most elaborate propaganda film since Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Williams?”

Washington Post: “The admissions office had retired its previous recruitment video, which was professionally filmed nearly a decade ago and features in-line skaters, students in baggy T-shirts and two people who have since died.”

Ivygate: “The YDN says that of 60 students attending a premiere Thursday night, 13 had ‘overwhelmingly positive responses.’ I assume the other 47 were unavailable for comment, having strangled themselves with a belt, slit their wrist (sic) with the broken shards of an iPod Touch, or otherwise acted out the first scene from ‘The Happening.’”

TrueSlant: “Not surprisingly, IvyGate took a sizable diarrhea all over this thing.”

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  • the YDN had the video up before the Bullblog…

  • Click the NTY link—-and see a real diversity of opinions–mostly thumbs up but v. interesting to read what the objections are—some have definite merit.