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Teddy going to Yale is unrealistic!

posted 9 years ago by RvaBread22
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I felt that Teddy going off to Yale is highly unrealistic. It doesn't fit her character. Its not that she's dumb or anything. But she doesn't seem like a Yale type, either. I mean, I'm not saying it couldn't happen- it just seems like the natural thing would be that she gets turned down or decides to just stay in Denver and go to a local school. I mean there are some very very smart people who never get into places like Yale. She should have gone to local community college and stay in town to patch it up with the Spencer character. It seemed like a very jump the shark moment. What should have happened is she turned down her Yale acceptance and remain with the family. But I know the show was over anyway by that time.

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[–] RvaBread22 9 years ago

Most smart people usually don't enjoy college all that much.

[–] metsgirl84 8 years ago

A school nurse and pest exterminator being able to afford that huge beautiful home was unrealistic...but that's Disney....

[–] PhineasAppleby 8 years ago

To be fair the live beyond their means isn't just a Disney thing.

Remember Amy got a job on the local morning show but Bob quit the extermination business to work with P.J. Pretty much back to square one.

[–] metsgirl84 8 years ago

True, but it's very common in Disney and they tend to take it further to the point it's not even believable. I can't remember the show (girl meets world maybe), but the family lives in a beautiful Manhattan brownstone on a middle school teachers salary.

[–] shadaif 8 years ago

In Girl Meets World Cory is a middle school teacher, but his wife is a lawyer. I could see Teddy going to UCLA or Stanford over Yale.

"The end of the shoelace is called the...IT DOESN'T MATTER!"

[–] DroverChicago 8 years ago

A school nurse and pest exterminator being able to afford that huge beautiful home was unrealistic...but that's Disney....

He's not just a pest exterminator, he also owns the business. As the owner/proprietor, it's possible enough that he makes enough coin to afford that house.

[–] PhineasAppleby 8 years ago

Amy was a nurse at a hospital before she went to work at the school.That's usually a job with good benefits so they family would have health and dental insurance.

Sorry to stir the hornets nest but middle class white kids who aren't geniuses are going to have a really really difficult time getting into Yale.