Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
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Princeton loves our nyc private high school. They always take 2-3 and sometimes more via questbridge. Almost all black or hispanic boys who aren't athletes but thrived (or really did well enough) at a PWI. That's in demand. We have more QB kids going to Princeton than any other college. MIT usually second.
Then we have the hooked kids: the famous last names (generational politician family or billionaire donors) followed by athletes with the grades. Legacy helps but it's not the tip the other two are. |
Anonymous
| Maybe it's a west coast thing - not seeing seeing Princeton on the HW or the Harker pages or some of the local privates in our area in SoCal. I wonder if it's a yield issue and they just don't take as many kids or they lose kids to Stanford and Harvard? Our west coast public is sending 2 this year, and it's a big deal. |
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What types of grades (like GPA, test scores) do these kids usually have? Do they have normal ECs or outstanding ECs? |
Anonymous
| At our NYC, Princeton always takes hooked as f kids (last names). Brown, Columbia, SWAP love FGLI. Athletes Stanford, Columbia, Duke. Unhooked top kids Penn and Cornell. |
Anonymous
What about Harvard and Yale? |
Anonymous
What kind of grades and ECs do these hooked kids have? FGLI kids? Unhooked kids? |
Anonymous
Yes to knowing ballet dancers at both Columbia and Princeton. Its big at both. |
Anonymous
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Since Princeton is going back to test mandatory it won't have the ease and flexibility to evade SFFA. You'll see a shift in admissions pattern next year.
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Anonymous
Yeap, a ballet dancer going to Columbia from our NYC private this year |
Anonymous
It won't be test required until the 27-28 cycle, so in two years. |
Anonymous
Most only had 4.0s and near/or 1600s while being truly special at their sports …but you dismiss as per what you need to do to make you feel justified in your world of silly. Oh yeah, and a few of them also got into Harvard and Yale WITHOUT the sports component or legacy aspect. I guess those schools were just letting them in for sheets and giggles. |
Anonymous
Wouldn't assume they have bad grades or ECs, most likely the opposite considering the resources they have, for hooked kids. School doesn't rank. FGLI should have good grades maybe rigor is not on the very top. Unhooked kids to Penn and Cornell in DC's circle, normal ECs occasionally national awards but not needed. Highest rigor. |
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Yale too, less frequent Harvard. |
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| This thread makes me so happy on DD’s choice of school. She made the right choice! (No not Princeton) |
Anonymous
+1 |