Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 00:14     Subject: Unhooked normal smart kids at YPS

Anonymous wrote:Yes, a kid at my kid's school got into Princeton. Asian male, CS major, drum major in band, student council president, first place team in a STEM team competition, took an additional math class outside of school. Affluent suburban public high school. The funny thing is that now his mom is going to hang a shingle and become a college counselor touting her kid at Princeton as evidence that she knows something about getting kids into elite schools.


Drum major and student body president in one package is pretty good for a CS major.
Anonymous
Post 11/11/2025 00:01     Subject: Unhooked normal smart kids at YPS

It's going to be very rare. Unhooked normal smart kids have a difficult time getting in T20, not to mention YPS.