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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So let me get this straight. Princeton has been and remains a top university with huge endowment and fundraising, elite by every measure. But you are unhappy that it is too diverse. And the best you could come up with to claim it is declining is that the annual fund participation rate went from very high to still high?[/quote]

Don't be an ass.

What bothers me is the prospect that recent graduates and current students may be having a more stressful and less enjoyable experience there.

I'm happy if it's more diverse if that's accompanied by continued satisfaction among students when it comes to their academic and social experience.  If it's not, that calls for some reflection on the part of university officials as to whether they are admitting the right kids and/or enabling the kids they are admitting to have a positive experience.

The decline in alumni giving is quite steep in recent years and apparently at an 80-year low.    [/quote]
What’s the connection between these two ideas? Do black people stress you out or something?[/quote]

I think OP has an agenda but I’ll bite and say that I could imagine that data might show that students are enjoying college less these days and finding it more stressful, not just Princeton but all colleges, and the difficult admissions process self selects for very intense people at the very selective schools. I think people are viewing college as more of a transactional kind of thing in many cases.

In any event, I went to a different Ivy in the 90s and have never given a dime. I had a good experience at the school and it served me well but I guess I always thought my charitable giving was providing more bang for the buck elsewhere. [/quote]

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