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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Having grown up in Princeton, doesn’t surprise me that   kids complain there is nothing to do in the town.  However the eating clubs probably have parties most weekends, same with the frats at Dartmouth and Cornell.[/quote]

But what if you don't get into one?[/quote]

I think like 70%+ of all Princeton students are in an Eating Club.  Also, the 30% that are not are by choice (and it is a financial consideration for some not to join)...I am fairly certain 100% of those that want to be in one can be in one.  A small group of the Eating Clubs are exclusive, while the others accept everyone.[/quote]

Princeton used to be evenly split between the kids who wanted access to the selective eating clubs and the kids who thought selective clubs were silly and wanted nothing to do with them.

Then the selective clubs started accepting more women and minorities and interest in them increased.  Now it’s a smaller percentage of kids who turn up their noses at the selective clubs.  But now it can be a rich Black student from Brooklyn Heights or an award-winning Asian musician from Toronto making some suburban kid from Tenafly or Jericho feel like shit.

I had a very good time when I was there but it just seems relentlessly competitive now, both academically and socially.  And it’s not something that stops after one semester.  If anything the social competition peaks in the second semester of sophomore year (Bicker) and the academic pressure peaks junior (tougher courses) and senior year (thesis). [/quote]

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