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* '''Inverted''': Trevelyan Academy is an underfunded school in a rough area. Most of the students have poor parents who can't afford to buy them any of the latest fashions.

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* '''Inverted''': [[SuckySchool Trevelyan Academy is an underfunded school in a rough area. Most of the students have poor parents who can't afford to buy them any of the latest fashions.]]

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* '''Implied''': A job fair aimed at students of Trevelyan Academy has no blue-collar job representatives, no vocational training representatives and no military recruiters. Indeed, the only job representatives seen there are those for modeling agencies.



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** The [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections connections]] the alumni make at Trevelyan Academy help them get cushy jobs
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** When Rosamond gets alopecia and finds her hair falling out in clumps, she loses her popularity and realizes people only valued her for her elite aura.

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** When Rosamond gets alopecia and finds her hair falling out in clumps, she loses her popularity and realizes people only valued her for her elite aura.looks.
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* '''Exaggerated''': the entrance requirements for Trevelyan Academy require prospective students to be sitting on a fortune of at least ten millions dollars, and to have some experience as a supermodel.

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* '''Exaggerated''': the entrance requirements for Trevelyan Academy require prospective students to be sitting on a fortune of at least ten millions dollars, and to have some experience as a supermodel.???
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'''Basic Trope''': The characters are part of an exclusive circle of rich, beautiful, and sophisticated people.
* '''Straight''': Trevelyan Academy is a private boarding school full of rich and glamorous students. Head Girl Rosamond is an eighteen-year-old diplomat's daughter and amateur model who likes holding lavish parties for her friends on the weekends.
* '''Exaggerated''': the entrance requirements for Trevelyan Academy require prospective students to be sitting on a fortune of at least ten millions dollars, and to have some experience as a supermodel.
* '''Downplayed''': Trevelyan Academy is a public school that lets in anyone, but it's in a pretty middle-class area and has a lot of well-off students consequently. Most of the characters are conventionally pretty, but are insecure about their braces, pimples, or glasses.
* '''Justified''':
** Rich people have more money to spend on things like makeup, skin care, hairdressing, clothes, and plastic surgery. Therefore, the students at Trevelyan Academy have no problem keeping stylish.
** As the students already have rich parents, they don't need to worry about planning for their future, studying, or getting a part-time job. Being able to keep stress down and take life easy imbues them with an inner glow.
** The rich and powerful get to set the standards for what is considered beautiful; however they look is automatically glamourized by society.
** Trevelyan Academy is specifically a school for aspiring models.
* '''Inverted''': Trevelyan Academy is an underfunded school in a rough area. Most of the students have poor parents who can't afford to buy them any of the latest fashions.
* '''Subverted''':
** Rosamond is revealed to be at Trevelyan Academy on a full scholarship; she goes home at the end of the day to a trailer where her and her mother live in debt.
** Rosamond takes off her makeup at the end of the day to reveal she has been severely burned by a freak accident.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** She might live in a trailer with her mother, but her dad is still loaded.
** The burns fade over time, restoring her glamorous looks.
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* '''Zig-Zagged''': ???
* '''Averted''': ???
* '''Enforced''': The producers want to portray an idealized version of teen life, so they [[DawsonCasting hire glamorous actors in their 20s and 30s to play awkward sixteen year olds.]]
* '''Lampshaded''': ???
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': Fearing the students may become conceited, Principal Greyson implements a very unfashionable school uniform, bans makeup and jewelry, and encourages all the students to volunteer for soup kitchens.
* '''Discussed''': ???
* '''Conversed''': ???
* '''Deconstructed''':
** Trevelyan Academy becomes infamous for its elitism, and is stereotyped as a nursery for spoilt, vacuous socialites. When alumni put the school on their resume, it's more likely to disenchant an employer than impress them.
** The pressure of being glamorous all the time causes Rosamond to [[WeightWoe develop an eating disorder]].
* '''Reconstructed''': ???
* '''Played for Laughs''': ???
* '''Played for Drama''':
** When her friends find out Rosamond is here on a scholarship, they shun her. She becomes depressed and drops out.
** When Rosamond gets alopecia and finds her hair falling out in clumps, she loses her popularity and realizes people only valued her for her elite aura.
* '''Played for Horror''': Trevelyan Academy is revealed to be run by eugenicists dedicated to preparing a generation of elites to take over the world.
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