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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That preppy & privileged feel is fading significantly at Princeton. My DS says that it only really exists with the athletes & legacies at the eating clubs. Otherwise, Princeton heavily favors and targets underprivileged kids for admission.[/quote]

Same at Dartmouth. My child is a freshman. There are wealthy boarding school kids but 30% of the students pay nothing. 
There are a ton of FGLI, etc kids.  The downside is that the students are underprepared.  My smart but not a superstar kid finds it super easy and is on the second trimester of 99% or something ridiculous in all courses (has accelerated the rigor when able but a lot of classes have been required). [/quote]

Is your freshman at Dartmouth taking STEM courses? Which ones? I'm surprised academics are that easy now/[/quote]

Yes, they're a STEM major.  
I think a lot of people would be surprised how dumbed down the Ivies are in 2026 in order to accommodate a pretty large cohort of kids who went to suboptimal high schools. [/quote]

I have a STEM student at an Ivy (not Cornell or Princeton), and I’d be unable to give you any worthwhile intel on different stem majors at their university much less have an educated option on a variety of stem majors at 7 other institutions.

This would be a far superior forum if everyone had the restraint to only post about things they could possibly know. [/quote]

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