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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It really means many of them were academically less qualified to get into Princeton in the first place. They took advantage of the rest of the applicants, got a free ride (FA and more), and now they're asking for more free rides?[/quote]

Your comment indicates that you have no understanding of what it means to be from a family where no one has gone to college and there is no money for anything but necessities. 
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I do understand. But where does it end in terms of giving them free rides?[/quote]

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Princeton is not a government welfare office.  It’s not meals-on-wheels.  It’s not Salvation Army.  Got it?[/quote]

It’s a private institution. Barring discriminating against protected classes, it can admit & give FA to whomever it pleaaes.[/quote]

Only if Princeton refuses to accept any federal money.  Otherwise they are bound by all civil rights laws.  After the Supreme Court hands down the SFFA v. Harvard, Asians and whites will sue those colleges left and right unless and until they stop discriminating against Asian and white students. [/quote]

FA is based on income & assets. That is not “racial discrimination.” I was responding to the “meals on wheels” comment. There are lots of high-performing & poor white, Hispanic & Indian kids attending rural & inner city high schools throughout the US. [/quote]

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