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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a middle class kid at Princeton 25 years ago and it was clear to me then that I —and my MC friends—were brighter than the UMC private school kids who seemed like a dominant strain within the class. In fact we were often amazed by how dumb some of the UMC NY/DC/LA kids seemed. Yes, they had traveled and eaten sushi and we hadn’t, but they were not academic competition.

FWIW Princeton has studied the effect of a Princeton education, and poor or MC kids achieve enormous social mobility from it. It doesn’t make much of a difference for UMC kids. [/quote]

This.  The comment was made above that the prep school kids had an advantage over the public school kids. LOL.  The advantage they had was getting in.  Standards were lower because the prep schools had a "relationship" with the admissions office and they knew private school kids were generally full pay.  It was very hard to get in from public school, even good ones, and the private school kids were on average a step down.  The smartest kids there came from good public schools.

As Princeton opens up its enormous pocket book and becomes less reliant on rich private school kids who don't need aid, the quality of the student body definitely increases... but if it goes too far, and the school is more concerned about bringing in kids precisely because they cannot afford it (because the endowment is so comically big they have no idea what else to do with the billions that must be spent annually) they potentially start undermining the quality of the student body and that seems to be happening. 1/4 students on Pell Grants is a lot.  You are drawing from a small sliver of the US population. 2/3 students qualifying for 70k of aid on average is a lot.[/quote]

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