College Discussion - View Single Post - What do current students not like about Princeton?

1of42 · 05-08-2008, 02:38 PM

There is, clearly, some negative response bias in that second link. That said:

1) Obviously students don't like the grade deflation policy. It hurts their GPA, which has an effect, slight as it may be, on their prospects for jobs. Clearly they're going to oppose it. I'm pretty agnostic on the issue.

2) A lot of the anti-administration sentiment is from a few events this year: annexing part of Spelman into Whitman (so, what, now they have the best new buildings on campus and a section of the best independent housing in their college? I call bullsh**), the new RCA alcohol policies, and the perceived war on the eating clubs. I'm not a big fan of any of those things, but they're not exactly horrible earth-shaking issues either.

Overall, the take-away here is that this is a heavily negative selection of campus views.

05-08-2008, 02:38 PM	#2
1of42 Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Princeton, NJ '11 Gender: Male Threads: 18 Posts: 890	There is, clearly, some negative response bias in that second link. That said: 1) Obviously students don't like the grade deflation policy. It hurts their GPA, which has an effect, slight as it may be, on their prospects for jobs. Clearly they're going to oppose it. I'm pretty agnostic on the issue. 2) A lot of the anti-administration sentiment is from a few events this year: annexing part of Spelman into Whitman (so, what, now they have the best new buildings on campus and a section of the best independent housing in their college? I call bullsh**), the new RCA alcohol policies, and the perceived war on the eating clubs. I'm not a big fan of any of those things, but they're not exactly horrible earth-shaking issues either. Overall, the take-away here is that this is a heavily negative selection of campus views.