<![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face - Gawker Comments]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @lizzybennet: yada yada yada

pufflehuff

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> blah blah blah pretty jew blah blah blah.

lizzybennet

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> She has no earlobes and its freakin me out.

Peteski

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @roodles: Yeah there's a big difference between fudging a transcript so it makes you look better than 8/9 applicants and real intellectual ability. That said, some of the kids I met were pretty damn smart.

I should also add that you can B.S. anything except for GPA and SATS score, they (almost) never check.

KiKiRiKi

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @KiKiRiKi: hmmm, I dunno. I have friends at Columbia, Harvard and University of Pennsylvania and some of the people in their crowd are the stupidest, douchy-iest bunch of trust fund baby, international royalty spawn, that I've ever seen. Perhaps they ARE making good scores on paper but they're pretty useless on the job and in life in general.

roodles

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Boy, intelligence is so the latest accessory that every girl will want for Spring!

That, and bending over in front of Clive Owen.

She will now be Natalie Herschlag for me, forever. Beeotch is only Jewy when she feels like defending Israel...

catbagger

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @Claystil: I used to work in something related to Ivy-League Admissions.

For fun:

The way that legacies work: a direct descendant of a $5 million+ donor will get a paragraph describing that relationship added to their file. If they measure up academically (GPA+SAT) they will usually get in. Often they don't. They never will if they don't measure up.

A $1 million+ donor's descendant, or someone peripherally related to a $5m+ gets a sentence. Less than that gets a mention. A legacy with few major donations simply gets a check mark.

'Important' people's kids get a similar tag. (I.e. Chinese president's daughter). As do celebs.

All minorities get a second look-through (i.e. chance to hold for admissions) by the Office of Diversity Affairs (not the real name of the office). There are unofficial quotas. Requirements are slightly lower.

Students are grouped into geographic regions, New York City is one area, Southern Connecticut is another, Wyoming... etc. Applicants compete within their geographic regions, so an Alaskan applicant has a better chance than a San Francisco applicant.

Athletics, clubs and student government are important considerations (after you've made the cut), because the social life of the University is basically all extracurricular clubs.

Athletes get a second look (though no scholarships are offered). Rare sports (i.e. polo, badminton) are easier to get into than something like basketball. Standards are sometimes lowered for applicants so long as the average GPA of the team remains high (there are star players and scholar athletes)

KiKiRiKi

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @8Millionth: I was being a bit hyperbolic. But it is very true that many people who would have a hard time getting into less competitive universities get into ivy league schools based on legacy and donor status. If you add SAT courses and private tutors to the mix, you get Harvard students who in any circumstance other than privilege probably would have scored as low as the 50th - 60th percentile on the SAT. This certainly isn't far off from what George W. did at Yale. No matter how few those who follow this route may number, the fact that it happens at all, or the fact that most people, at least in NYC have met a plethora of incompetent Ivy League grads is enough for me to discount the value of the education they've received, at least socially.

Claystil

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> There is a big difference between being "smart for a hot chick" and "hot for a smart chick", no? And she is neither.

AndThenIFoundFiveDollars

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @HeyWhoTookMyStapler: My apologies, I've had a bug up my ass about her ever since she started calling herself an anti-terrorism expert after her role in 'V for Vendetta.' I should also mention her real surname: Herschlag

KiKiRiKi

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> why does she keep saying classic?

ThoughtinMouth

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @rantmagazine:

I heard she eats puppies.

readinessisall

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @KiKiRiKi: @rantmagazine: ** crashing noise **

That was the sound of my dreams of a perfect Natalie being shattered by harsh reality.

Sob.

HeyWhoTookMyStapler

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @KiKiRiKi:
Agree completely and heard so many unpleasant stuff about her. But she's a good faker. I'll give her that..

rantersparadise

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @HeyWhoTookMyStapler: She's a fraud: fake nose, admitted to Harvard because of her acting background (i.e. not grades+SAT), pseudo-research credits on a few pysch papers (she made coffee) and it's well known that she had a team of tutors helping her.

KiKiRiKi

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> If loving.. no, let me rephrase that, if WORSHIPING Natalie Portman is wrong, I don't want to be right. Seriously. Love. Her.

HeyWhoTookMyStapler

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @8Millionth: "The competition to get into Harvard is the toughest in America." It doesn't follow that brains are required.

trojanhorse

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Bitch gets more annoying by the second.

bugupit

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @DonPardoCalrissian: "2minosos"

DonPardoCalrissian

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> If she's so animal-friendly, how come SHE'S still made of skin?

DoctorTormento

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @DonPardoCalrissian:

And coming in a close 2nd: Snug Life.

readinessisall

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @Cheap Shot: Tupac's sneaker collection was to be called Sunderos 2mineros.

Vegans are sweet and all but they're really not very smart.

DonPardoCalrissian

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @8Millionth:

To say nothing of their rampant grade inflation.

readinessisall

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @Claystil: The competition to get into Harvard is the toughest in America. The legacy and donor thing is real, but not definitive.

It's their professors which aren't the best.

8Millionth

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> I, for one, welcome our fembot overlords (overladies?).

PattyCake

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Ever the selfless philanthropist, Ms. Portman sacrificially dumbs her intelligence down a shade, such that the lay audience may perhaps attempt to grasp her meaning. That's like very, like, very...good of her.

readinessisall

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Speaking of dumb hot chicks with a Harvard education, Al Gore's daughter is an idiot too. After seeing a clip of one of her speeches on TV recently, it's painfully obvious that celeb hot chicks can get into Harvard and graduate without acquiring much education at all.

Fishman

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Don't worry, in 10 years another Natalie Portmanbot will go back in time to 1997 and destroy this Natalie Portman bot, thus ensuring that Garden State is never made and my personal apocalypse of paying 10 bucks for a zach braff film will never happen.

BaconCat

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Any dolt who studies in HS and takes an SAT course OR just has money OR is a legacy (GWB) can get into an ivy league with no problem. You can't be retarded, but you don't have to be smart. Besides, everyone knows Ivy League undergrad programs serve only to finance graduate programs.

Claystil

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Clearly the poor dear has been sniffing the glue used to hold her plastic pumps together, if she thinks anyone's going to fork over hundreds for boring petrolchemical-based footwear.

City_Dater

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Finally. An apocalypse that I can get behind.

Clarence Rosario

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @Reluctant Financier: almost as much as she loves the word "like"

fivehole

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Like someone said a few days ago, they've had crappy fake leather shoes, jackets, and belts at Wal-Mart and/or Payless Shoes for decades. Also, probably at 1/10 of the price of Natalie's.

CaptainFantastic

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> I don't care how smart or stupid she is...she never, ever struck me as being that attractive.

bigspike

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> I Love these shoes but they aren't leather. I fyou must be that tacky, shop at Payless.

Miss Pontificating

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @mitchel_stevens: Yes, I think so. It's a math thing — like multiplying a negative by a negative equals a positive.

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @MisterHippity:
So, wait. If Denton is in drag...and he covers Morrissey...does that make him straight?

mitchel_stevens

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> I prefer to think of Ms. Portman as a sophisticated sex robot sent back in time to fulfill the wishes and dreams of one lucky man.

I can't wait till she finds me.

Calitri

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @raronauer: Boring!

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: Cybrog, duh.

rebecca

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Shoe opportunity.

Nicholas Carlson

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @MisterHippity: Uh oh.

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> She's also said some awfully stupid things over the years, too. I'm still waiting for her to demonstrate that her interests don't ultimately focus on the wonders of Natalie Portman.

KateNonymous

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> @TheHonJudgeSmails: I think Rebecca is Nick Denton in drag.

So you should probably draw your own "smart/hot or not?" conclusions from that.

MisterHippity

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> The name té casan (tae-ca-sahn), "A Woman's Path".

Get it? shoes, walking, path? fucking IVY LEAGUE GENIUS!

Cheap Shot

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> We we going to be tested on this?

belltolls

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> It's true. Before Natalie, there was no such thing as non leather shoes.

Richard

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> The only thing I learned from that entire video is that she loves the word classic.

Intern Kevin

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Which are you, then, Rebecca?

TheHonJudgeSmails

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> I think it's about time the public was fully made aware of this. The problems of hot women are far more important than those of, say, average-looking women. Or me.

Ha Ha Sound

]]> <![CDATA[More Than A Pretty Face]]> Going to Harvard means you're smart? You sound like my mother.

trojanhorse

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