Princeton REA Thursday?
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Anonymous
| Dalton hopefully will have 8-10 when all is said and done. Remember, these are the pinnacle of students. |
Anonymous
What does that mean? That they are rich hedge funder's kids? Because I bet the smartest kids at Andover or Executer or Stuy or TJ can beat Dalton students any time. |
Anonymous
Pinnacle LOL. When I looked at their Insta last year I recognized some of the boldface names. |
Anonymous
In this case, I think the deferral is a soft rejection, as the legacy parent is heavily involved in alumni interviewing for the school. |
Anonymous
It's Exeter, but I appreciate the Freudian slip. Yes, being a "development admit" (i.e. rich potential donor's child) can help a lot. Plus being a legacy or child of a famous person. |
Anonymous
There are a lot of of very talented public school students, especially from the Whitmans and Langleys in this country, not to mention the magnets. But Princeton isn't interested in these students. High Schools like Dalton bring the wealthy hedge fund and private equity parents. And that's what this is about - not talent. And no private school in the DC area can compete with the NYC privates, much less the public schools. For schools like Princeton, your parents and their wealth matter a lot if you are not FGLI or recruited athlete. That's reality when applying SCEA to a school like Princeton or Harvard or Yale. |
Anonymous
They are hardly pinnacles of anything other than wealth and privilege. |
Anonymous
And 3 into Princeton from Spence which is only 60 kids per grade. |
Anonymous
And let me guess. Their parents are in finance. |