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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ok, I'll  throw my dd's opinion into the mix. My dd is a senior. We toured a lot of colleges and she did her own research. She checks all of the boxes in competitive admissions including long commitment with national awards in an EC that is impressive. More than her grades, rank and talent; she's an incredibly kind and empathetic person. Not sure where she will ultimately get in and attend but Princeton turned her off. She had a meeting with one of the professors related to her talent and he was great but she has zero desire to attend. We went 2x, in the hopes that maybe she was there on an off day. Nope. Didn't like it at all. I probed her on this and she said it felt unhappy, old fashioned, too much like a manicured country club. She also was not into the eating clubs on any level, sign in or not. I'm not sure if an 18yo is a millennial or what but she was dead sure that Princeton was something "a parent would like" as in, like an outfit a parent would pick out for a teen, but the teen wouldn't wear it. She didn't love Harvard either. But she did love Yale. [/quote]

So she applied to Yale early and will not apply to H and P? What are her backups?[/quote]

applying to Brown, Tufts, Northeastern, BU, Vassar, Bard, Cornell, Wes[/quote]

Crunchy circuit.[/quote]
She wants to stay far far far away from Trump voters, yes. [/quote]

Ah, empathetic and kind, but can't handle the deplorables. [/quote]

You're damn right, she'll fight the cretans who marched in C'Ville and protect the rights that have been eroded by the president the deplorables voted in. Yes.
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Ah, sounds like a patronising, know it all social justice warrior. I'm still looking for those rights that have been stripped away by the president and even I hate the notion of Donald Trump as president.

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+1.  Reminds me of a vogue instragram post the other day with a photo of a black woman entering a "colored only" bathroom in the 1950s.  The caption said something about returning to this time during the Trump era.  Given Trump hasn't done anything remotely related to segregation I found it plain ridiculous and a great example of the fake news Trump talks about.  I hate Trump btw.  [/quote]

So you're ok with 80% of Trump's appointments being white men? Of course you are. And of course a racist like you is fine with only one of the US attorneys being black. You are deplorable[/quote]

I think you've boxed yourself in now on every front:  your daughter doesn't actually sound that impressive (her list of schools suggests she'd be a long shot at any Ivy, much less Princeton) and your politics sound condescending and naive (if you don't think there are plenty of Trump supporters near Ithaca and Poughkeepsie, you haven't done your homework). [/quote]

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