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How a <em>Real Housewife</em> Got into Columbia
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Jen Carlson
Published May 27, 2009
Modified May 27, 2009
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You may have known that the Real Housewives of New York was off the air, but Kelly Killoren Bensimon is talking like the cameras are still on her. Okay, so they were, for this 35-minute-long Obsessed TV interview that NYMag points out. Wondering how this one got into Columbia? She just asked nicely and batted her eyelashes, duh. Bensimon, who graduated from Columbia's School of General Studies at age 30, explains, "A friend of mine said you should really go to Columbia, they have an amazing journalism department there. And so I actually went to the school and I said to them, I said, 'You know, if you take me, I, you know, you just gotta give me a chance, and if you take me, then I will be the best student, I will do whatever it is, whatever you need whenever you need it. I promise you, you know, I will not be a mistake.' And this man, the dean, was like, 'Who are you? Like, what? No, no, no. We have a process here. You have to fill out an application.' And I was like, 'No no no, It's nice you have an application, I've already sent that in, but I want to go here, and I really really wanted to go there.' And he let me in." Totally not a mistake, right, Dean?
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Jen Carlson is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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