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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is really tragic.

At the risk of sounding callous, my kids (senior and junior at 2 different schools) were recently talking about the kids going to X, Y or Z school.  Princeton came up because they know about 8 different kids who got in from a mixture of privates and publics.  It is the most interesting group of intense, odd and heavily parented kids you could imagine. Their conclusion was that it was a bunch of kids who had little in common with each other except they all stood out as being extreme.

I do think that colleges who select for these outlier kids are going to get ones who struggle with mental health issues at a higher rate than the rest of humanity . Both because mental illness sometimes tracks with brilliance and because the pressure these kids have been under for so many years (from parents and from themselves) is really hard.

I doubt it has anything to do with what Princeton is doing or not doing. These kids arrive with these risk factors. [/quote]

Not to be mean, but we know a narcissistic liar going to Princeton. Their app was full of lies and they still got accepted.[/quote]

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