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Reply to "a final warning to high school students in the college admissions game"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote] I think that is a big problem with school admissions trying to pull the levers of social mobility. College cannot fix a broken childhood where the kid grows up compulsively self-sabotaging because that's all the family taught them. [/quote] Princeton's social mobility efforts have taken a bunch of kids out of poverty and landed them jobs in FAANG, top IBs/PE shops, and solid PhD programs. Princeton can't fix people's emotional traumas and not all of the kids will be prepared to make use of Princeton's opportunities. Back when I attended, I knew some children of billionaires who were in and out of rehab for drug problems. Even people from rich backgrounds sometimes have broken childhoods. The social mobility efforts seem to be succeeding on the whole even if not for every kid. I personally think increased social mobility is a net positive for society.[/quote]
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