Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 22:36     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:Since Princeton is going back to test mandatory it won't have the ease and flexibility to evade SFFA. You'll see a shift in admissions pattern next year.


It won't be test required until the 27-28 cycle, so in two years.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 22:29     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton loves classics majors.
And ballet dancers.


so does columbia


I actually know a ballet dancer at Columbia. So this is the truth.


Yes to knowing ballet dancers at both Columbia and Princeton. Its big at both.


Yeap, a ballet dancer going to Columbia from our NYC private this year
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 22:12     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Since Princeton is going back to test mandatory it won't have the ease and flexibility to evade SFFA. You'll see a shift in admissions pattern next year.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 21:22     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton loves classics majors.
And ballet dancers.


so does columbia


I actually know a ballet dancer at Columbia. So this is the truth.


Yes to knowing ballet dancers at both Columbia and Princeton. Its big at both.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 21:02     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:At our NYC, Princeton always takes hooked as f kids (last names). Brown, Columbia, SWAP love FGLI. Athletes Stanford, Columbia, Duke. Unhooked top kids Penn and Cornell.


What kind of grades and ECs do these hooked kids have? FGLI kids? Unhooked kids?
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 21:00     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:At our NYC, Princeton always takes hooked as f kids (last names). Brown, Columbia, SWAP love FGLI. Athletes Stanford, Columbia, Duke. Unhooked top kids Penn and Cornell.


What about Harvard and Yale?
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 20:39     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
At our NYC, Princeton always takes hooked as f kids (last names). Brown, Columbia, SWAP love FGLI. Athletes Stanford, Columbia, Duke. Unhooked top kids Penn and Cornell.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 20:18     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:Princeton loves our nyc private high school. They always take 2-3 and sometimes more via questbridge. Almost all black or hispanic boys who aren't athletes but thrived (or really did well enough) at a PWI. That's in demand. We have more QB kids going to Princeton than any other college. MIT usually second.

Then we have the hooked kids: the famous last names (generational politician family or billionaire donors) followed by athletes with the grades. Legacy helps but it's not the tip the other two are.



What types of grades (like GPA, test scores) do these kids usually have? Do they have normal ECs or outstanding ECs?
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 10:45     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Maybe it's a west coast thing - not seeing seeing Princeton on the HW or the Harker pages or some of the local privates in our area in SoCal. I wonder if it's a yield issue and they just don't take as many kids or they lose kids to Stanford and Harvard? Our west coast public is sending 2 this year, and it's a big deal.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 09:12     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Princeton loves our nyc private high school. They always take 2-3 and sometimes more via questbridge. Almost all black or hispanic boys who aren't athletes but thrived (or really did well enough) at a PWI. That's in demand. We have more QB kids going to Princeton than any other college. MIT usually second.

Then we have the hooked kids: the famous last names (generational politician family or billionaire donors) followed by athletes with the grades. Legacy helps but it's not the tip the other two are.

Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 07:08     Subject: Re:Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
St Albans has 2 going this year. No sports recruits.
Anonymous
Post 04/23/2026 06:50     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton loves classics majors.
And ballet dancers.


so does columbia


I actually know a ballet dancer at Columbia. So this is the truth.
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 23:23     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:Princeton loves classics majors.
And ballet dancers.


so does columbia
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 23:23     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Princeton admissions seems to confound as no other. Schools that routinely get at least one kid into Harvard, Yale, and Stanford every year often strike out completely at Princeton.


Sidwell usually sends 1-2 students/year to Princeton, and they are almost always hooked (to an extent not seen at other Ivies, besides Yale). This year, there are 2 students going to Princeton and they’re both hooked.


Both hooked AF. The hookiest of all hooks.


#Facts! 🤣
Anonymous
Post 04/22/2026 23:18     Subject: Top private high school in NYC has 8 students going to Princeton this cycle
Anonymous wrote:Princeton loves classics majors.
And ballet dancers.


And ballet dancing classics majors?