Yale Daily News

The entirety of Gossip girl is based on stereotypes, not just its depiction of Yale. Parodies usually are. Is anyone bothered by the degrading stereotypes GG exploits about the working class? Probably not so much. True the episode should have been filmed at Yale if possible, but it's still an intriguing show.

Thank you, Ohio.

This article lacks different angles. It's overall redundant and repetitive. Not everyone hated the episode, and even if you did, unknown reporter, suck it up and write a real YDN worthy account of the facts.

Try harder, new board people. Try harder.

"And under no circumstances do high school students approach Yale upperclassmen with romantic propositions."

Actually...

"And under no circumstances do high school students approach Yale upperclassmen with romantic propositions."

Indeed: when I was a high school student, I approached a Yale upperclassman with a romantic proposition. It was cheerfully accepted, and we dated for a couple of years.
What's more, we're still friends.

Guess your prefrosh were nerdier than ours.

This is one of those articles that you head str8 to the message board

It's a TV show! Who really cares if it wasn't realistic? News flash: Most TV shows have an air of unreality about them. Does Yale have nothing better to worry about than a show? Get over it.

You people at Yale, if anyone is dumb enough to believe that a fictional TV series is going to portray your school with complete accuracy, they're too stupid to make it in anyway. Don't complain about the depiction. I bet the college's appearance on the show leads to a significant boost in applications, some from people with brains who are very well aware that the depiction was not entirely accurate but nevertheless grew more interested in the place due to its prominence in the storyline.

I think Yale and its students seriously have more important things to worry about than how GG portrayed the school, especially when the portrayal was mostly flattering. Come on, Serena and Blair both want to go there! Dan is dying to! Nate seems interested now! Not so much bad in any of that.

Seriously, if something should be up for critique, perhaps it's the authors’ decision to spend so much time dissecting a TV show that airs on the CW. I believe viewers who tune into “Gossip Girl” are looking for more scandal and drama than an accurate depiction of admissions procedures.

XOXO

It took two people to write this article?

This article makes Yale undergrads sound even dumber than the people who made this episode. And whinier.

And lamer:

"And under no circumstances do high school students approach Yale upperclassmen with romantic propositions."

Underwhelming.

Yale Daily News: "Gossip Girl isn't real, guys!"

I love Gossip Girl and I loved Gilmore Girls. I must say that Gilmore girls did shoot on location in Connecticut as it took place there but they filmed in LA and that why the real Yale was used. I want to add a correction to the article though. Gossip Girl used a CUNY not Columbia University. That's right. Brooklyn College sat in for Yale. As a CUNY employee I think it was awesome seeing Brooklyn College. But I also think the episode was great. Every school has secrets. Remember that Gilmore Girls and Gossip Girl are two totally different types of shows. Overall though awesome job. Good article

I understand where you're coming from- after seeing this episode, I feel like it kind of makes a mockery of Yale, turning it into some place where anyone can get in as long as they've got money, fame or can bribe their way in and the Dean will fawn over them. Definitely not the best portrayal- but then again it's Gossip Girl, I never put any faith into trusting its reality ahah.