End of Dream??

PtonAlumnus
Wed, 07 Apr 2010 10:07:13 +0000

It is time to start a new dream. Princeton has more fully qualified applicants than the school can accept. Ted Turner was not admitted to Princeton and founded CNN. Alexander Hamilton is reported to have been denied admission and he became one of the great intellectuals of the Revolution. (Princeton later granted Alexander Hamilton an honorary degree.) Harold Varmus, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine and president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering was denied admission twice to Harvard Medical School. Dr. Varmus wrote, If rejected by the school you love, immerse yourself in life at a college that welcomes you. “The differences between colleges that seem so important before you get there will seem a lot less important once you arrive at one that offered you a place.”