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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A recent survey of graduating students found that 92% would attend Princeton again if they had a do-over. That’s a fairly high percentage, but maybe it was higher in the past.

If they wanted to boost the percentage of happy students they could inflate grades and offer admission to a less diverse group of students. They see their mission as offering unparalleled resources and opportunities to a diverse and talented group of students, but they don’t relax their academic standards like some T20 schools and they largely leave it up to students to chart their own academic and social paths (although all freshmen and sophomores are members of residential colleges that organize a lot of social events). They also have a lot of kids pursuing challenging STEM majors, and some struggle to keep up. The same thing happens in STEM programs at many universities, but it may hit differently at Princeton because you mostly have kids who’ve always known only success and may not have the same resilience as kids elsewhere.

For those who do navigate Princeton successfully, there’s generally no other place they’d rather have attended. [/quote]

This is consistent with what colleagues say about Princeton over coffee.  In particular, the bit about STEM students who always have been top X% now finding they are bottom 50% sounds very true.

A good question is whether there is correlation of their suicides with STEM (and maybe with Economics or similarly hard math-centric degrees) or whether it is not correlated with STEM (and similar degrees). Suicides and rustication at Oxbridge often correlates with students who were top 10% before Oxbridge and now are bottom 50% at Oxbridge.  [/quote]

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