How UES College Admissions Accounts Work
Plus: Sag Harbor loses a staple, another Greenwich Village closure, the UES dating math, 92NY nights with Sarah Hoover and Haley Sacks, and a pawn shop for billionaires...
We’re almost back to regularly scheduled programming! By next week, we should be good to go.
Today, please enjoy my first ever killed piece in my 17-year journalism career. I was commissioned for this piece about college admissions accounts (the non-sanctioned social media accounts that announce where high school students are going to college), because of my widespread knowledge of the private school ecosystem on the Upper East Side, but the editor felt it didn’t have enough tension after I turned it in. She wanted more “teenage and parental angst and emotion” (her quote, not mine). Unfortunately, I didn’t feel that existed, and I didn’t feel comfortable creating a false narrative. (If there’s one thing you can be sure, I will never make a story out of nothing. I took the kill fee). But I do think there is a fun story here even if it’s not some epic tale of upset. (Go easy on me, it has not had the artful touch of a pro editor and is a little formal and less fun than my normal RPS stories, which basically are just my day-to-day talking voice with you all). Also, I had a few of the kids on the record in the original draft, including the son of a RPS subscriber I have gotten to parasocially know, but I have made everyone anonymous in this version since they signed up to be in a traditional media story, not my newsletter. I try to be as transparent with everone as possible. Call me old-fashioned!
Along with a spicy story on the UES private school admissions accounts on Instagram, today RPS has some genuinely sad closing news—one Hamptons staple and a Greenwich Village one set to shut this summer—plus where to catch Sarah Hoover this week, where to find Mrs. Dow Jones next month, the rise of the ultra-rich pawn shop, a look at the UES dating imbalance, and more.
