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05-04-2008, 07:51 AM
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| I chose Princeton over ...
Now that decisions are in, I would be curious to learn of the other schools in the decision set of those who have selected Princeton.
Conversely, if you did not chose P, where are you going? | 
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05-04-2008, 08:19 AM
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#2 | | Junior Member
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| S chose P over Dartmouth. Very difficult decision. I think it was all the input from princeton alums that made the difference. | |
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05-04-2008, 08:33 AM
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| S chose P over H...recruited athlete! | |
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05-04-2008, 09:22 AM
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| H and Y, also recruited athlete. | |
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05-04-2008, 09:27 AM
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| I chose Princeton over MIT. | |
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05-04-2008, 02:29 PM
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| The University of Chicago. Extremely difficult decision, and I was leaning the other way until mid-April. | |
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05-04-2008, 03:36 PM
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| I chose Princeton over Stanford and University of Chicago | |
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05-04-2008, 04:40 PM
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| I chose Princeton over Columbia, Harvard and Penn | |
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05-04-2008, 05:38 PM
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| I chose Princeton over MIT, Caltech, Columbia, Cornell, Olin, and Duke. | |
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05-04-2008, 05:41 PM
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| I chose Princeton over Yale, Columbia, and CMU | |
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05-04-2008, 08:01 PM
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| Recruited Atheletes
It's incredibly unfair that athletes, who usually aren't even in the same universe as qualified applicants, get accepted. I still don't understand why Princeton, and other Ivies, hold on to this archaic notion that the athletic achievement of a university is important. Furthermore, Princeton doesn't need the publicity associated with successful teams. Schools like Florida State and Penn State and Davidson this past year are significantly aided in this respect; Princeton's academic reputation and prestige suffice.
For the record, I love watching and playing sports. | |
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05-04-2008, 08:15 PM
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| dontno: There are so many obvious problems with your post that it's almost laughable. Quote: |
Originally Posted by dontno It's incredibly unfair that athletes, who usually aren't even in the same universe as qualified applicants, get accepted. | Unfair? What do you mean? Since when is it less fair to get into a university on athletic merit? Or, conversely, since when has it become a universal maxim of fairness that it is more fair to let someone into a university based on academic merit than on athletic merit?
You are yet another person who assumes that academic merit should be the primary index for determining an applicant's worth. That is simple not the case. There are a number of ways to determine merit, and none are inherently fair or unfair. You might like one type of merit more than another, but that does not reflect anything except your personal biases. | |
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05-04-2008, 08:29 PM
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| S chose Princeton over Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Wharton, Cornell and Dartmouth-and it was not that hard a decision! Go Tigers! He was NOT a recruited athlete. | |
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05-04-2008, 08:43 PM
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| Just on a side note, why do parents always use "S" and "D" instead of son and daughter? Especially for son, is it really a big difference between typing "S" and S-O-N? | |
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05-04-2008, 08:48 PM
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