Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 13:08     Subject: Princeton scea
Princeton seems like a weird place to me now. The admissions department is run by minorities and generally super woke but they make room (grudgingly?) for legacies and athletes. Then most of the kids end up in tough STEM majors like CS where the faculty grade rigorously and many of the kids who thought they won the lottery end up miserable and wishing they’d gone elsewhere.

Is that perception inaccurate?
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 13:07     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If its any consolation, my kid who organically had a resume and qualities which Princeton admission folks seems to gush about, got deferred and then put on waitlist in RD. They didn't wait to get off waitlist and accepted another T20.

Princeton was going to be full pay even if the got in and other T20 gave a significant merit scholarship. However, this was few years ago and my DC is Asian from large competitive suburban public high school.



sorry to derail, but which T20 gave big merit? Emory, Wash U, Vandy? (am I forgetting someplace?)


I’m interested in this too!!


Emory is not a T20 school.


Seriously, that’s like a siren call to Emory mom, and the next thing you know there will be five pages breaking down Emory’s test scores, etc. . ,

Let it go, let it go…
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 12:15     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If its any consolation, my kid who organically had a resume and qualities which Princeton admission folks seems to gush about, got deferred and then put on waitlist in RD. They didn't wait to get off waitlist and accepted another T20.

Princeton was going to be full pay even if the got in and other T20 gave a significant merit scholarship. However, this was few years ago and my DC is Asian from large competitive suburban public high school.



sorry to derail, but which T20 gave big merit? Emory, Wash U, Vandy? (am I forgetting someplace?)


I’m interested in this too!!


Emory is not a T20 school.


Let it go, let it go…
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 12:09     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If its any consolation, my kid who organically had a resume and qualities which Princeton admission folks seems to gush about, got deferred and then put on waitlist in RD. They didn't wait to get off waitlist and accepted another T20.

Princeton was going to be full pay even if the got in and other T20 gave a significant merit scholarship. However, this was few years ago and my DC is Asian from large competitive suburban public high school.



sorry to derail, but which T20 gave big merit? Emory, Wash U, Vandy? (am I forgetting someplace?)


I’m interested in this too!!


Emory is not a T20 school.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 12:01     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:Denied here. Strong applicant (according to counselors) from competitive big public and no hooks. High stats. In my gut I knew this was the statistical most likely outcome but you have to let them try!


DC had the same outcome last year. At Cornell now. Don't lose hope!
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 12:00     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know 3 very small legacies from the DMV who all got in.


How short are they?


this tiny!
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/12/hugh-grant-hated-being-an-oompa-loompa-obviously
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 11:56     Subject: Re:Princeton scea
ROTC is the back door in, but my kid didn’t want to commit to that 4 years
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 11:48     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:I know 3 very small legacies from the DMV who all got in.


How short are they?
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 11:46     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:Denied here. Strong applicant (according to counselors) from competitive big public and no hooks. High stats. In my gut I knew this was the statistical most likely outcome but you have to let them try!


I agree. Some people don’t want to always wonder - better to close that door and have no regrets.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 11:43     Subject: Princeton scea
Denied here. Strong applicant (according to counselors) from competitive big public and no hooks. High stats. In my gut I knew this was the statistical most likely outcome but you have to let them try!
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 11:13     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know 3 very small legacies from the DMV who all got in.


What is a "very small" legacy?


I'm wondering what a "very small" legacy is too.


sorry! I'm the "small legacy" poster and this was a total error. I don't know why I typed that--I was on my phone and also on a work call.

It's regular legacy (parent).
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 11:11     Subject: Princeton scea
I think it's one parent and they don't really donate anything.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 11:09     Subject: Princeton scea
Maybe a grandparent or aunt or uncle? Or a parent who only went to graduate school and not undergrad? Most of the Ivies only consider a kid legacy when their parents went to undergrad at that school. However, I heard Georgetown considers parents who went to one of the graduate programs (including law school) to be legacy also.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 10:42     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I know 3 very small legacies from the DMV who all got in.


What is a "very small" legacy?


I'm wondering what a "very small" legacy is too.
Anonymous
Post 12/13/2024 10:11     Subject: Princeton scea
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If its any consolation, my kid who organically had a resume and qualities which Princeton admission folks seems to gush about, got deferred and then put on waitlist in RD. They didn't wait to get off waitlist and accepted another T20.

Princeton was going to be full pay even if the got in and other T20 gave a significant merit scholarship. However, this was few years ago and my DC is Asian from large competitive suburban public high school.



sorry to derail, but which T20 gave big merit? Emory, Wash U, Vandy? (am I forgetting someplace?)


I’m interested in this too!!