Most unbelievable thing about this entiire movie...

Fortunately, it's the very last line, so it's easy to avoid or ignore.

Why is that unbelievable? Look at who her father is. You don't think he didn't have some strings pulled?

Don't be so harsh. We don't know Daphne's GPA, SAT scores, APs, where she went to high school, or what she does during the school year. What we do know, however, is that she has a strong alumni connection. All we can do is just assume that between that and good scores, she deserves to go. It's not as unrealistic as you'd like to think.

"What's the score?"
"Dirty love." The Simpsons

What makes it unbelievable? She never mentioned her grades, or S.A.T. scores? When she gets home she is filling out college applications, so obviously she cared some about school. Just because she was a free spirit, doesn't mean she didn't get good grades.

When I read this post, I thought you were talking about how Henry just let Daphne in his life just like that without so much of a paternity test or anything considering his political position.

Are you forgetting who her father is? He most definitely could have pulled some strings. We don't find out her grades or GPA and she'd have to be able to keep up once she got in, but it's far from unbelievable.




"It's better to be hated for who you are than be loved for who you aren't."

Weeeellll... we don't know anything about her academics... we also don't know that she didn't get into NYU. She says she didn't end up there, not that she didn't get in. Very different statement. The point was probably that she chose to start the new phase of her life in London, with her father and his family and her boyfriend. But that aside, is not impossible to get into one and not the other. Hell, I got into Stanford but not UC Riverside, and I didnt even have an alumni connection or a prominent public figure for a father like Daphne.

That's far from unbelievable. She probably applied as The Lady Daphne Dashwood, daughter of the Earl of Wycombe and not Daphne Reynolds of China Town, New York. Based on the paintings Henry shows to Daphne, the family title is old. I'm sure plenty of Dashwoods went to Oxford or other prestigious universities. Getting in wouldn't be difficult.

Lizzie

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