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[quote=Anonymous][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]

The problem is that they are [b]not [/b]discriminating against the unprepared, as they should be.[/quote]

How are you supposed to discriminate? All the low-income admits to Princeton I know were valedictorian or salutatorian. [/quote]

If only there were some sort of standardized test they could use to judge people from widely different schools across the country.  :roll: [/quote]

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