Emma Watson Gets Accepted Into Yale?

As many posters before me have said, there are thousands of people with better grades than Emma Watson - even taking into account her mere 3A’s at A’level. 50% of my school alone has 4A’s at A’levels, but do all 600 of those people with 4A’s and wonderful extracurricular records get into Yale? NO. Probably 3 out of that 600 people will.

I’m not saying Emma Watson isn’t intelligent, but comparing her grades and extracurriculars to these brilliant people I know who have achieved international recognition in their science research and medals in International Physics Olympiads but still do NOT get into Yale, then you do see that Yale is a tough tight and Emma Watson probably wouldn’t be there except for her name. She’s a celebrity - of course she’s gonna get in.

looks to me that emma indeed got in bc of her celebrity status in addition to her real qualifications, but emma is the type of celebrity who does not just shop all the time, she aspires to be an educated person and an activist like Natalie Portman, and look what Natalie did with her education, she is more of an activist than just a graduate, so if emma gives Yale a voice coupled with her celebrity to promote good causes, isn;t more important than just to give someone a diploma for a good job?

@ 57

If you get into yale you will graduate and promote your carrier for personal reasons as well as others who deserve to be there, if emma graduates yale, she may go on to become a spokes person for some cause, something you can not do bc you do not have her popularity, people will listen to emma bc of her popularity and education/intelligence, so yale is right to admit her

Some people here like ilsa are just whining for no reason. So because she was in Harry Potter, she shouldn’t be able to go to the college of her choice?! You sound ridiculous.

And Yale doesn’t accept applications with just straight As and “acting” on them as her attributes. You guys are complaining about an application that you didn’t see. Like Halo said before, people like Meryl Streep went to Yale before they were even known in the “celeb” world. So what’s your excuse about her then? oh that’s right nothing. Emma just happens to act in film but clearly going to a great college like Yale was always on her agenda whether she acted or not. She comes from a well educated family and education is clearly important to her otherwise she wouldn’t be racking her brain on 10 different subjects every night. She could have done like Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton but no….she wants to go to college.

@ Will #60 and #61:

1) If you read my post carefully enough, notice that I did not say Emma Watson does not deserve to go to college. She certainly does have a certain amount of credit considering her decent grades at A’level and extracurricular activities. I was merely commenting that without the celeb status, she might not have been such a shoo-in at Yale.

2) On your point about Meryl Streep: I’m not clear about her circumstances when she got into Yale, but according to your post, you stated that she got into Yale BEFORE she became a famous actress. If so, more props to Meryl Streep because she got in BEFORE she became the actress, hence her admission to Yale was entirely on her own merit and not due to any overarching celeb status.

3) As mentioned before in my post, I was merely commenting on Emma Watson’s greatly improved chances at admission to Yale due to her celeb status. And my point about my own results (and extracurriculars) is merely that even with results better than Watson’s I would not have gotten a place at Yale, thus again emphasising my point about how her celeb status has improved her chances. I was not ‘whining’, as you put it, but merely using the case of my own results to prove my point.

Shannon/Jake/Hannah et al:

Yale would not accept Watson based solely on her fame and money. As a former admissions officer I can tell you that her grades combined with a really impressive resume probably did make her a shoe in. And for those of you who feel the British Education system is not comparable to the system in the states–you are right—it is much more rigorous. I worked with two universities in England and while the courses were not as “exciting” as some of the cutting edge American courses are–they were extremely rigorous in the arts and sciences. I bet many of our US students would fail the finals if they took them in aUS based comparable course.
An admission team looks at many things in an institution such as Yale. Grades, test scores, extracurricular activities, the ability to utilize the education they will receive, what they will do with it when they leave and more. Ms. Watson probably presented a superior application. Her essay portion was probably unique. Her life experiences certainly so. Yale likes to have foreign students and she qualifies there.
And for those of you criticizing Jodi Foster getting in–she supposedly has a very high IQ so that combined with her life experiences, grades etc. probably got her in.
What you don’t hear about are those that are rejected. Very few of Hollywood’s stars, celebutards etc. feel finishing their education is important. You can tell by how they write their blogs. Hilton, Lohan et al would never get into Yale. They can’t write and their every day actions which would translate to vapidness in an application package would keep them out also.
Emma has a high IQ, is incredibly smart and gifted. Yale is lucky to have her.

brit @ 02/28/2009 at 12:54 pm
Yet another product of the American public school education I bet.

(L) i love.

#62: ” I was merely commenting that without the celeb status, she might not have been such a shoo-in at Yale. “………………. I AM MERELY COMMENTING THAT YOUR AFFECTED PRESUMPTUOUS POST, MAY BE ACTUALLY BE GROUNDLESS.

i am really tired of people bashing on my girl Emma saying that she did not deserve it and such. I have been a big fan of her since I was 12 and I am now 19. She has /always/ been that smart. She switched schools when she was younger so that she would be able to receive a better education. On all of her exams she has done, /extremely/ well! On her GCSE exams she received all A’s two times might I add. I’ll give you that maybe her name had something to do with it but her getting into Yale isn’t /that/ far of a stretch considering she’s been super smart for quite awhile now.

wow smart and beautiful. she worked hard at school and deserves it. hollywood isnt everything. good luck EMMA.

duhhhh she got accepted. she’s EMMA WATSON. colleges like celebrities because it attracts attention to the school…..