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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Princeton is not among my favorite colleges. I've always disliked it. That said, this kid was pretty messed up before he went to Princeton. He reads his admission essay on youtube. He is US born. His father was bon in China but adopted by a Caucasian American family and grew up in the US. So, this kid is NOT from an immigrant family in the usual sense. Much of his essay is about his father's rage and how he was regularly beaten by his father and how he tried to save his sister from that when his father began to beat her. That sort of upbringing leaves scars no matter where you go to college--and even if you don't go at all. Other aspects of the essay make it seem as if the kid is OCD. Now, I don't think Princeton is a great place, but this kid's issues aren't entirely due to being at Princeton. +1[/quote] +2 This kid has bigger problems that Princeton can't fix. I think that is a big problem with school admissions trying to pull the levers of social mobility. College cannot fix a broken childhood where the kid grows up compulsively self-sabotaging because that's all the family taught them. These videos are a form of self-sabotage aren't they?[/quote]
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