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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The turn of the discussion has relatively little to do with Princeton. Princeton accepted the fewest students of any Ivy and its admission rate last year was the third lowest in the Ivy League (at 6.1%, behind only Harvard and Columbia).  It is also regularly recognized by US News as the best undergraduate institution in the country.  Its endowment per student is staggering and its reputation secure.

All that really can be said is that, at the margins, some bright students don't apply there because of its reputation for social exclusivity, as most obviously perpetuated by the "bicker" tradition at a half-dozen selective eating clubs (if all the clubs operated on a sign-in or lottery system, this would be a non-issue).   Students who apply to Ivies obviously aren't put off by their academic selectivity or exclusivity; in fact they covet it.  But the selective eating clubs send a message that, no matter how smart you are, [b]you can be excluded based on a comparative lack of social connections or skills,[/b] and that's not the message some high-achieving kids want to hear.  Even if the short-term impact of doing away with the selective clubs would only be to increase the number of applications every year by a few thousand, and drop the admissions rate to below 6%, it's not something the administration should ignore. [/quote]

This is true absolutely everywhere, though.[/quote]

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