Rory: Well, I'm completely unprepared, and I have no original thoughts!
Lorelai: No, no, don't blame yourself, it's not you. It's those jerks at Harvard. I hate them!
Rory: What?
Lorelai: Well, apparently, it doesn't matter how qualified you are, those lazy-ass admissions officers just take applications and stick it in the yes and no piles without even glancing at them!
Rory: Well, it won't matter because my Hillary Clinton essay will be just like every other girl's Hillary Clinton essay because apparently that's all we can think of. I'm such a hack.
Lorelai: Is it true everyone has the same GPA? How is that possible?
Rory: Because we all take the same classes and we all give the same perfunctory run-of-the-mill responses. And I'm interested in too many things, I have to limit them. I'm gonna circle travel on my application. From now on, that is what I am interested in, travel.
Lorelai: No, no, don't do that, no! Because all those people coming from China and India and God knows where else, they're all nuts for traveling that's why they're traveling here! And jobs are dropping and dot-com bombing and something's acting like a yo-yo, I don't know what but it's not good! And over my dead body is Kate Hudson getting your spot, let me just say that right now!