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Originally Posted by kenf1234 On a separate (but related) note, it amazes me how Princeton boosters go around extolling the glories of Princeton, how it's a bastion of egalitarianism and class blindness. No one on CC boosts as hard as Princetonites do, and honestly, I find a lot of it disingenuous.
Yes, I'm trying to pick a fight a little, but I think people should be more honest in how they try to help people pick their schools. Each school has its plusses and minuses, and people who have actually attended a school know better than anyone those plusses and minuses. It's important to help prospective students with honest, candid advice. |
There is an enormous contradiction in this post. You point out, rightly, that the people best placed to know the pluses and minuses of a school are those who attend(ed) it. Yet you assume that our (Princeton parents, students and alumni) boosting of Princeton is disingenuous. Why? What, other than a personal feeling that Princeton can't be as great as everyone who attends it says it is, leads you to believe we are being disingenuous?
Is it so hard to accept that maybe, just maybe, in spite of the elite Ivy League image of the school, it actually
is incredibly egalitarian and class-blind here? I have a lot of friends and acquaintances of widely differing socioeconomic backgrounds, and the wealth or lack of wealth of my friends' backgrounds plays into our interactions in no way.
Maybe you need to stop assuming that we must all be disingenuous, shed your pre-existing prejudices, and come have a visit and see just how true what has been said about Princeton really is.