Lol Jedward have more sense than Grace.
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It's the literal same with TALA - constant Beyonce / Megan Thee Stallion if not rap and black fishing models. Now I can't listen to Savage without wanting to drill my earlobes off and it's literally bc of TALA / just general influencer marketing.OT but I actually despise the language/marketing of shreddy/shreddy club.
The infographic she shared of “shreddy-wrapped” made me cringe. ‘cardi-no’ ‘baby got back’ nahhh why does she think she’s black? She’s the whitest person ever yet all her products have an element of AAVE in their marketing and naming.
Aside from that, it also makes her products super inaccessible for people who actually want to lose weight properly and develop a better understanding of nutrition and exercise.
“Wow how did you lose weight?”
“oh I just did the bAd asS BisHworkout and ate a kilo of fried mushrooms on my avo toast xoxo”
not that she cares about accessibility and developing a strong following, her “strong following” and loyal customers is just the 75 percent of people who accidentally paid for another year of access due to their sneaky auto renewals
Yeah Grace herself was always one of the prolific black body appropriators on IG
How ironic that Grace used to bang on about how cultural appropriation was her "specialisation" at university.OT but I actually despise the language/marketing of shreddy/shreddy club.
The infographic she shared of “shreddy-wrapped” made me cringe. ‘cardi-no’ ‘baby got back’ nahhh why does she think she’s black? She’s the whitest person ever yet all her products have an element of AAVE in their marketing and naming.
Aside from that, it also makes her products super inaccessible for people who actually want to lose weight properly and develop a better understanding of nutrition and exercise.
“Wow how did you lose weight?”
“oh I just did the bAd asS BisH
not that she cares about accessibility and developing a strong following, her “strong following” and loyal customers is just the 75 percent of people who accidentally paid for another year of access due to their sneaky auto renewals
As someone who attended university with her, I can say she also has the academic intelligence of a bleeping potato.
loooool how dafuq did she get in ? Honestly the Oxford thing is such a huge part of her draw / USP and it baffles me that she actually is as intellectually wanting as her "book excerpts" show her to be...
This something I will ask myself for as long as I live on this godforsaken hell-hole of a planet.
In all seriousness, the answer begins with N and ends in nepotism.
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urgh why is it always the case....I always thought it was a bit strange (back when I thought she had decent knowledge etc. and watched her vids) that she said she was rejected for philosophy so applied instead for music. They just seem so disparate - wouldn't you rather apply for the course you really want at another of the UK's illustrious unis? It's like it was Ox or nothing. What do I know tho I am just an Oxbridge reject loools
I believe it MAY have had something to do with the fact that she went to a (pretty much) unheard of college because the person who taught her at junior Royal Academy of Music was in charge of admissions...just MAYBE...
I think it's bleeping mad to want to go to a uni SO BADLY you'd do a TOTALLY different degree to get in. Fair enough if she got really passionate about music in her intern gap yaaaah, but I don't think she's ever said that or even implied it. I fully believe she wanted to do music because it's less subscribed for than PPE or similar. It's mad to me! But I don't have £50k to spaff on something just for the craic lol so I guess that helps
Omg no way at Lady Margaret Hall? Did you ever talk to her / come into contact her btw?
I thought she got in because she was fairly big on YouTube at the time and they wanted her there just because of her status and her family and not because she actually got in at all
AKA she did a half-arsed essay on it once and probably got a 62.
We were once having a convo here how we were shocked that she graduated with a 69 overall (on her youtube video) like that must mean she's academically capable of bullshitting but someone else said that she kinda exaggerated her grades? But her current writing is atrocious for someone who supposedly "did well" at Oxford
This really isn't how the admissions system works. First of all the admissions is highly decentralised so 'Oxford' as a whole doesn't really say who gets in - it's a relatively small number of tutors across individual colleges and departments. UnjadedJade and Ruby Granger are big studytubers (with followings bigger than Grace did at the time she applied) and they got rejected - if they cared about having influencers they'd be letting those two in. Grace's booty guide would not have been on their radar haha.
I know it's probably not what people want to hear, but mediocre boarding school kids get into Oxford all the time. And it's not directly a result of their family connections - the idea that you can get into Oxford with 'connections' is at least a 20yr old concept by now. The tutors who are interviewing students aren't 80 year old Richard Dawkins types anymore; a lot of them a pretty young lefties who aren't gonna care about things like who your family is! What it is a result of is people like Grace being trained all their lives to do well in the Oxford admissions process through their incredibly well-resourced education. You wouldn't believe the kind of support they get just to apply to Oxbridge - banks of past interview questions, multiple mock interviews, one-to-one coaching. And because of this, when it comes to the most important part of the process - the interview - I have no doubt that Grace could project confidence and bullshit enough to get in. It's unfair and it's a really difficult part of the admissions process to equalise, but these kids are taught to think on their feet and be confident to challenge academics in a way students at other schools aren't. But then funnily enough these same students will barely scrape a 2.1 by the end of the three years.
(sorry for the rant - but sometimes I do genuinely worry that a prospective applicant would read stuff about Oxford thinking you can only get in if you have connections, which isn't true, and I wouldn't want someone to put off applying because of that).
Funny that she got at 2.i with 69 because the bracket for a 1st at Oxford is 67.5 (for music anyway)...yet more bullshit
St. Peter’s but yeah, I won’t lie, I know her pretty well. I can’t say more than that in public but my exposure was such that I’ve resorted to here to vent...
I think its an older idea than that even - these are olddddd institutions. Totally get your point about not putting people off, but i think the idea that all these mediocre boarding school kids get in there all the time is enough to put most people off. Makes the whole thing seem a bit pay to play? (e.g. pay for you child's education so they can "play" with their social elite friends at uni).
I don't think anyone's saying it's the only way to get in - but there's no doubt that connections can play a part in some cases.
Absolutely! There are probably still lots of old fellows knocking around, even if there are lots of young liberal ones coming through the ranks...
If our government are handing their pals contracts (worse still during a global pandemic!!!) like they're sweeties, what's to say the same thing isn't happening in the hallowed halls of our educational institution too?
I think you misread what I said, or maybe I didn't say it clearly. I'm saying that people getting in on connections (i.e. being aristocracy, paying your way in) absolutely used to be rife, I'm not denying that! But as of this century (i.e. the past 20 years) it's just not something that is happening at a perceptible level at all. I understand it's confusing what I'm saying - that mediocre private school kids get in but at the same time connections don't play a part - but I'm just trying to explain that the reason people like Grace get in isn't because someone saw her name on a piece of paper and gave her a tick; it's a more insidious series of structural privileges that have set her up to thrive in their admissions process. I'm agreeing with you, in that some ways it's pay to play, but not in the sense that some people are suggesting (e.g. a direct "ah yes, one of the Beverley's, let's let her in!)
And just to add - Oxford gets the brunt of the criticism for being elitist and filled with private school students, but they've made tremendous leaps in terms of access. 68% of their first year undergrads are state school educated. Which is considerably better than St Andrews and Durham, for example... so I think it's important to acknowledge that the admissions system is actively trying to combat the historical legacy of preferring privately educated students, to the point where they're doing even doing better than some Russel Groups.
I can't make people believe me, but I'll just say I'm not pulling this out of my rear end... I'm saying it as someone involved in process this in various capacities. The admissions process has so much oversight that I don't see how a favour could slip in at any point. It's nothing like the US system, e.g. Lori Loughlin & co. And of course there's old fellows knocking around, but that's kind of the point - these old fellows aren't doing much of the interviewing these days. It's younger academics doing the slog of the admissions and interviews because no one else wants to do it.
On the Christmas topic, I’ve seen that one of her flatmates isn’t in Grace’s house but somewhere else atm... think the story expired now though
I also find it very weird that the supposed flatmates don’t follow her on Instagram. It seems the other girls flatmates knew each other before hand
I also find it very weird that the supposed flatmates don’t follow her on Instagram. It seems the other girls flatmates knew each other before hand
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