Four Thanksgivings and a Harvard Funeral | Gilmore Girls 

And when they were making the pro/con list she's the first one to tell Rory how the list was in favor of Yale and when they decided (yes, they) is Lorelai telling Richard and Emily, like is her news, she's absolutely ridiculous

Yes Lorelai gets annoying but put yourself in her shoes everytime she makes a decides on anything the grandparents interfer she is the Mother it is between her and Rory.

@@Dani-so5mg it was Rory who tells Lorelai to tell her Grandparents

@@JillHope-Bailie-xt5gw She always said WE, like it's her thing. The fact that she made a huge drama about to then end up doing the exact same thing she said didn't want to do shows how ridiculous and dramatic Lorelai can be

@@Dani-so5mg is it so wrong for her and Rory to decide where her daughter goes to College they undermine whatever she says not only for this but everything how would you like it if your parents interfered with every decision you make. Yes she changed her mind because she did her homework and saw it was a better decision for what Rory wanted not because her father tried to trick and lie to get Rory to go to Yale, he also lied to his guests by saying he did not try and force Rory I

I quite agree. No HS student is going to apply to just One college/university. Lorelei's behavior about this entire situation is beyond her. This is pettiness on a whole other level. Plus it's Not you who is applying for college, it's Rory. At some point that young lady has to make decisions for herself.

She was always annoying around her family

@@StewNWT sometimes she was justified but other times she was just so annoying and immature

Very

Yes!! And she's so jealous of Rory and the treatment Richard and Emily give Rory, she is really damaged

@@Dani-so5mg parents be doing that in real life They don’t know what we go through they be like we, we we we we we

Yea you couldn’t apply to only one university

@@tangiechapman6219 For me it's like this, either you suck it up to maintain a close relationship with your family or you just leave your family behind

Though it may be silly, I do think that it’s only one of many examples of Lorelai desperate to ensure that Rory doesn’t follow the path her grandparents would choose for her. The path and the life that Lorelai fled herself. While they’re both ivy league schools, Lorelai feels more comfortable with the idea of Rory attending Harvard rather than Yale, the school with a long history of Gilmores attending.

@@sophiarosep9Yale is closer to home though

Lorelai needed therapy. The fact that she's always milking that "my parents were controlling" cow while controlling every aspect of Rory's life is just absurd

The problem is that Rory was reluctant to tell her mother that she had applied elsewhere. She probably guessed that Lorelai would be upset if and when she found out, and was scared to let her know. Lorelai also made the assumption that her parents were being controlling when it came to Rory applying to schools, but Rory seemed to have made the decision all on her own. Rory even seemed offended that her mother didn't think her capable enough to figure out enough to apply to Yale on her own. I don't agree with what Richard did in the episode where he took her to the Yale campus, but the truth is that Rory would be a fool not to consider Yale as a backup alternative to Harvard.

@@darkkey19 The three of them: Rory, Emily and Richard always have to be extra careful because the drama queen always HAVE to make a scene, for everything

@@Dani-so5mg of course it is, and I’m not saying that her reaction was a good one, just understandable. I would be shocked to find out something so important about my daughter’s Life in that way, and then understand that she was trying to keep it from me. And at the end of the day, Lorelai was going to find out regardless when she didn’t, in fact, get into Harvard. But that’s building an argument on the assumption that the average 16/17 year old has that much insight. The way that Richard and Emily treat Rory is also very different from the way they treated Lorelai when she was Rory’s age. We even see how, in the episode where Richard first takes Rory golfing with him, that Emily insists to him that they should build a relationship with her. That and other subtle scenes from following episodes suggest that Emily bears some kind of guilt for Lorelai running away, and doesn’t want to be pushy with Rory the way she was with her daughter.

@@darkkey19 absolutely. And it isn’t as though this is something that Lorelei can advise her daughter about, considering she’s never been to college. She knows how intelligent her daughter is, but doesn’t understand how selective these colleges are and how difficult it would be given the intense competition. I don’t think that Lorelei considered Rory in capable of making about decision, but given that this had never been previously discussed, and Rory had never mentioned even considering applying elsewhere even as a back up, it stands to reason that Lorelei would suspect her parents’ involvement. It turned out she was wrong, but to say that Rory came up with the idea all on her own is also false. It’s been some time since I’ve watch the episodes, but as I recall Richard had hinted something of the sort to Rory, though he did not suggest she should apply at Yale specifically. Only that she should have a back up just in case. I wouldn’t consider something like that meddling, but I can see how it would appear so from Lorelei’s perspective given the sudden change in Rory‘s mindset now that her grandparents are involved in her life.