On my phone, the Twitter app shows emoji but the browser only shows basic ones. I didn't see the emoji until you posted the screencap. Prior to that, it was 100% a rape "joke" to me. And as a survivor, damn, did my blood run cold.

Phoebe Buffay would have worn a few LP prints, but only if she got to have chopsticks in her hair, a velvety purple coat with knit cuffs, chunky boots, and a daisy choker.

I wonder if she’s my former coworker who used to host an annual spring party called “Oh, For the Love of Lilly!” Admission was a bag of canned goods for the Junior League pantry. Impressive level of stereotype achievement.

I know a six-year-old who’d look amazing in it.

I will never be able to see Lilly Pulitzer without thinking of my week spent at Sweet Briar for a conference. Motherfuck, ladies, do you share one closet? I don’t care about the brand itself and what it “means” or looks like; I just found it so boring to see that many young women I couldn’t tell apart.

Fifty years from now, the film from 2014 that people will still watch and revere will be the one with little plastic toys from Denmark.

“Important” and “good” or “likable” are not synonymous. A film can be important based on the conversation it generates, production breakthroughs, diversification, and other factors.

Most people haven’t followed it, as John Oliver crushingly pointed out, so I would say that was an important film. It was cool to watch it for two hours even though it wasn’t cool to read The Guardian every day. It made what was a current yet fading topic one that people got really interested in again.

I think the themes of “Selma” are certainly relevant for today, because this shit is still going down, but I know what you mean about “Dear White People” taking them and portraying them within today’s context. If we’re talking about importance, I think showing the situation right now is a bigger deal than showing a…

“Dear White People” was a low-budget miracle of sorts. “Selma” had Oprah. I’m okay with excusing some less-than-perfect execution.

Good job starting it!

No, we're not. I don't think it's very likely that it was the most important film; I think it's very likely that it was not. Appreciate the reading help, though!

"Selma" was only the most important American movie of 2014 to people oblivious to indies and documentaries. Hell, "Dear White People" deserves at least as much consideration.

I would say that the way alumni volunteers see/understand the role of interviews is probably a bit different from how admissions officers see them, and that a lot of that is by design. It's an important and valuable perspective but not the full view.

Oh, but they do. We routinely rejected students because they seemed too different from the typical student on campus during their interview. And if an alumni interviewer had a strong leaning either way, we almost always followed it. You’d be surprised by how much those twenty minutes can impact you.

Well, yes. But the difference between a 3.7 and a 4.0 isn’t that big, plus it’s relative. A student with solid bonuses and a 3.0 getting in over a student with a 4.0 and no bonuses would raise eyebrows, but not this.

Eh. I worked in elite admissions. Three things:

Not Natalie Portman. Girl was too good for Harvard. I actually wish she’d stayed in academia because we’d probably have cancer cured, cloned, and cured again by now.

I know a double legacy who went to Harvard after missing most of her 12th grade spring quarters for travel and who turned in little to no homework that whole year. You think she didn’t know about Mom and Dad’s checks? She found it hilarious. And she got to continue the same behavior while there because she was in her…

I know a Hollywood couple doing this right now. Kid #1 started there this year. Both parents are legacies and the kid probably could have gotten in on her/his own, but the family has been doing fundraisers (including hosting one for the college administration at their home) because they know the younger siblings…